Baker v. Argueta

Citations

• 209 Conn. App. 843

Syllabus

The defendant appealed to this court from the judgment of the trial court dissolving his marriage to the plaintiff and making certain orders regard- ing the parties' finances and custody of the parties' two minor children. During the pendency of this appeal, the defendant filed a motion for articulation requesting that the court articulate several aspects of its original decision related to its finding of the defendant's presumptive child support amount. Thereafter, the trial court issued, sua sponte, a corrected memorandum of decision in which it found that the defen- dant's presumptive child support amount was $275 per week, rather than the $294 per week it had found in its original decision, and, subsequently, denied the defendant's motion for articulation. On appeal, the defendant raised claims relating to the child support award entered by the court in its original decision, asserting that the court incorrectly found that his presumptive child support amount was $294 per week. Held that this court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to entertain the defendant's appeal as that appeal became moot when the court issued a corrected memorandum of decision: the defendant's claims related only to the child support award in the court's original decision, the defendant did not challenge, by way of an amended appeal, the court's corrected decision, in which the court reversed itself and resolved the matter at issue in the defendant's favor, and there was no practical relief that this court could afford the defendant. Argued November 30, 2021—officially released January 11, 2022