Section 30-4-58 Issuance of order for temporary support of wife or children pending trial, appeal, etc.
Section 30-4-58
Issuance of order for temporary support of wife or children pending trial, appeal, etc.
At any time before or at the trial or pending an appeal to the circuit court, upon motion of the complainant and upon notice to the defendant, no formal notice being necessary if the defendant be present in court and informed of said motion, the judge of said court may enter such temporary orders as may seem just, providing for the support of the neglected wife or children, or both, pendente lite, and may punish violations of such order as contempt of court, as provided by law for the punishment of contempts of the court in which such case is pending.
(Acts 1919, No. 181, p. 176; Code 1923, §4487; Code 1940, T. 34, §97.)