Order affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff's application to adjudge the defendant in contempt for failing to cooperate in the sale of the marital home was properly denied. Contempt requires a showing of willfulness. Since it is not at all clear whether the 1977 change in custody from the defendant to the plaintiff of the parties' youngest child, born in 1965, rendered her emancipated within the meaning of the divorce decree so as to trigger the termination of the defendant...
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