Name that party--Houston

Houston Chronicle:

A Harris County family court has awarded the ex-wife of state Rep. Harold Dutton Jr. nearly $16,000, finding the state legislator was in arrears on court-ordered child support payments.

But the court declined to hold the Houston Democrat in contempt for those late payments, rejecting his ex-wife's attempts to have him thrown into jail.

Dutton, an attorney, also was ordered to pay an additional $8,000 in legal fees to his former wife's lawyer in the ruling issued Friday by Associate Judge Conrad Moren.

Dutton has long been embroiled in a bitter legal fight with Phyllis Faykus-Dutton, the mother of four of his sons. Their divorce was finalized in 1995, but they have butted heads in court repeatedly since then.

In court papers, she has accused her ex-husband of trying to shirk his child support obligations. But Dutton said he fell behind on the payments because the original court order was "ambiguous" and failed to stipulate how his payments would change when his sons turned 18 or if they moved in with him.

Three of their sons are now living away from home, attending various universities.

"The reason I didn't pay (child support) is because I wanted the court to tell me how much to pay — because I didn't want her to have one nickel she wasn't entitled to," the state legislator said from his Houston law office on Tuesday.

Dutton is chairman of the House Committee on Juvenile Justice and Family Issues, which occasionally oversees child support issues and other civil law matters relating to families. (Emphasis added)

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To the Chronicle's credit they named Dutton's party in the second paragraph, but still managed to bury the lead which I have put in italics.

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