Dempsey v. Cappuccino

Citations

• 200 Conn. App. 653

Syllabus

The plaintiff appealed to this court from the judgment of the trial court granting the parties joint legal custody of their minor child and giving the defendant unsupervised visitation. The plaintiff claimed that the trial court erred in awarding the defendant unsupervised visitation and in not finding that he had substance abuse issues. After the commencement of her appeal, the plaintiff filed a postjudgment motion to modify the custody and visitation order. The court modified the visitation order, changing the defendant's visitation to supervised visits and finding that the defendant had substance abuse issues. Held that the plaintiff's appeal was dismissed as moot because the aspects of the custody order that she challenged on appeal were superseded by the subsequent order issued in response to the plaintiff's motion to modify; moreover, although an order superseding the order of joint legal custody was not issued, the plaintiff failed to adequately brief this issue on appeal and, therefore, any claim of error pertaining to the order of joint custody was not properly before this court. Argued May 22—officially released October 6, 2020