Catalina Yachts v. Warren

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• holding that final order for alimony may be modified by trial court on showing of substantial change in circumstances of either party
• reversing trial court’s ruling and remanding for new hearing on motion for modification where trial court applied wrong standard of law
• a court may take judicial notice on its own initiative or on the request of a party
• ‘‘[t]o avoid re-litigation of matters already settled, courts in modification proceedings allow the parties only to present evidence going back to the latest petition for modification’’ [internal quotation marks omitted]
• Court treated a CT Page 15334-hp motion to terminate child support as a motion for modification and placed the statutory burden on payor to demonstrate a substantial change of circumstances
• [t]o obtain a modification, the moving party must demonstrate that circumstances have changed since the last court order such that it would be unjust or inequitable to hold either party to it . . .

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).