Opinion ID: 2764205
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Court’s Registry

Text: For his final point on appeal, John urges that the circuit court abused its discretion in permitting Christy to deposit alimony payments she owed him into the court’s registry. The thrust of his argument appears to be that permitting her to do so was somehow unfair because she had previously sought a setoff of amounts she claimed were due from him to her, and her request was denied. The record before us reveals that following the filing of the circuit court’s order on June 19, 2013, Christy filed a motion for leave to deposit funds into the registry of the court. In her motion, Christy admitted that she owed accrued alimony to John and stated her desire to tender the amount owed—$245,000—immediately into the registry of the court. She 11 Cite as 2014 Ark. 543 further sought permission to submit monthly payments for remaining alimony payments due and stated her intention to petition the court “to reduce any remaining unpaid balance on the deficiency owed by John to her from the sale of the marital home to a judgment, and order a set off from this amount against the funds she has deposited [in]to the registry of the court.” Over John’s objections, the circuit court entered an order granting Christy’s motion to deposit funds and ordered the clerk to accept and hold any funds deposited until further order of the court. While John takes issue with the circuit court’s order permitting Christy to do so, he has yet again failed to cite this court to any convincing authority in support of his proposition that the circuit court erred. The failure to cite authority is sufficient reason to affirm the circuit court’s ruling on this point. See Nielsen v. Berger-Nielsen, 347 Ark. 996, 69 S.W.3d 414 (2002). For the foregoing reasons, we affirm the circuit court. Because we do so, Mr. Snowden’s conditional cross-appeal is rendered moot. Affirmed on direct appeal; cross-appeal moot.