Anketell v. Kulldorff

Citations

• 207 Conn. App. 807

Syllabus

The defendant appealed to this court from the judgment of the trial court dissolving his marriage to the plaintiff. At the time of the dissolution trial, the plaintiff worked as a per diem nurse with hours that varied considerably. The defendant worked as a biostatistician, and his income was dependent on the number of his employer's ongoing grant funded projects. At the time of the trial, his salary was approximately 50 percent of what his annual income had been during the five preceding years due to the expiration of at least three grants, which he and his colleagues were working to replace. The defendant remained in the parties' marital home in Ashford, which he had purchased prior to their marriage. The parties also jointly owned a home in Nicaragua. During the marriage, the defendant made two payments in excess of the scheduled monthly payments on the Ashford home mortgage without the plaintiff's consent. Additionally, after the filing of the dissolution action and the issuance of the automatic orders, the defendant transferred funds into education trust accounts for the parties' two minor children and the defendant's minor child from a previous marriage without consulting the plaintiff. The trial court, inter alia, dissolved the marriage, awarded the parties' joint legal and physical custody of their two children, entered a parenting time schedule, and permitted the plaintiff to relocate to Worcester, designating her residence as primary for purposes of school following the relocation. The trial court ordered the defendant to pay child support in the amount of $325 per week, which it stated was a downward deviation from the guideline amount. The trial court also ordered the defendant to pay to the plaintiff a lump sum property settlement, which it stated included settlement for the plaintiff's share of the Nicaragua property, along with partial reimbursement for the funds transferred into the children's education trust accounts and the overpayments on the Ashf