· 4/27/2022
in Re Elijah Stewart, Relator
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- explaining complexity of properly characterizing “stock options,” and concluding that exercised stock options were part of payor’s “gross annual employment income” under alimony provision
- finding husband in violation but not in contempt of alimony order where order not clear and unequivocal, and husband had good faith belief of compliance
- upholding contractual obligation in alimony action but rejecting finding of contempt
- husband was properly ordered to make further payments from proceeds of stock options, but should not have been held in contempt
- husband not guilty of contempt where his failure to pay alimony obligation in full was result of good faith dispute over amount owed
- \the husband's disagreement [with how to interpret divorce judgment] or misunderstanding of the issue [did] not constitute clear and undoubted disobedience of a clear and unequivocal command\
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