Hixson

In 1997 appellant, petitioner Georgiana Breeden Hixson (Breeden), and respondent, Harry Franklin Hixson, Jr., entered into a series of stipulated judgments dividing and distributing their marital assets. In 2001 Breeden filed an order to show cause with respect to community property which she alleged had not been previously adjudicated. Breeden propounded discovery with respect to the factual allegations set forth in her order to show cause and the family court granted Hixson’s motion to prevent the discovery from taking place. Thereafter the family court denied Breeden any relief on the order to show cause.

We affirm. The evidence in the record is not sufficient to establish the existence of an unadjudicated community asset as to which discovery is necessary or as the basis for granting relief on Breeden’s order to show cause. Thus the family court acted properly in denying Breeden any relief on the order to show cause.

SUMMARY

After 32 years of marriage, Breeden and Hixson separated in 1995. During the course of the marriage Hixson was the president and chief executive *1120 officer of a large publicly traded biotechnology company, Amgen, Inc. (Amgen). The bulk of…