Maddux v. Maddux

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• holding that courts are generally without authority to reduce accrued payments
• child support payments become vested in payee as they accrue, and thus, courts are without authority to reduce amounts of such accrued payments
• cases over­ ruled by Smeal Fire Apparatus Co. v. Kreikemeier, supra note 2
• punitive contempt sanction conditioned upon future failure to pay child support is void

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