Anne Capaldi v. Steven Capaldi

Syllabus

The defendant, Steven Capaldi, appealed the Family Court's decision to reopen this case and award a portion of his pension to the plaintiff, Anne Capaldi. On appeal, the defendant argued that the plaintiff's request for one-half of the marital portion of the defendant's pensions, filed more than two decades after the Family Court finalized their divorce, was untimely pursuant to the statute of limitations in G.L. 1956 § 9-1-17 and barred by the doctrine of laches. The Supreme Court concluded that the plaintiff's latent discovery of the defendant's pension did not toll the statute of limitations. <br><br>The Supreme Court vacated the orders of the Family Court.<br><br>