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GATUSO v. GATUSO

No. 148, September Term, 1972.

16 Md. App. 632 (1973)

299 A.2d 113

MARY L. GATUSO v. CHARLES W. GATUSO.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 26, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George W. McManus, Jr., for appellant.

C. Rogers Hall, Jr., with whom was L. Awalt Weller on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before ORTH, C.J., and POWERS and CARTER, JJ.

POWERS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal involves two questions:

1. What discretion does the Chancellor have when he is asked to hold in contempt a husband who has not obeyed an order to pay alimony, support and maintenance?

2. What discretion does the Chancellor have to enter an order which goes beyond the relief prayed or the issues framed in the pleadings?

The answer to the first is that he has such discretion, that it...

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