J. B. v. C. B.

Syllabus

The defendant, whose marriage to the plaintiff had previously been dis- solved, appealed from the trial court's judgment resolving certain motions for contempt and for modification of child support filed by the parties. The defendant claimed, inter alia, that the court improperly relied on incomplete or inaccurate financial disclosures in modifying the plaintiff's child support obligations. Held: The trial court did not improperly rely on incomplete or inaccurate financial disclosures by the plaintiff in making the requisite child support calcula- tions in conjunction with its downward modification of child support, as the defendant did not direct this court to anything in the record from which it could conclude that it was error for the trial court to credit the plaintiff's testimony that certain payments from his parents were not likely to continue indefinitely or that its decision not to include those payments as income constituted legal error or an abuse of its discretion. The trial court did not improperly deny the defendant's motion for contempt, as the court, rather than ignoring what the defendant maintained to be extensive evidence of misconduct by the plaintiff, marked off the motion for contempt with the consent of the defendant because she was unable to identify a specific clear and unambiguous order of the court that the plaintiff failed to comply with or otherwise violated and the court simply concluded that such evidence was not relevant to the defendant's motion for contempt. This court declined to review the defendant's claim that the trial court improperly modified child support without accounting for the extensive litigation between the parties that already had occurred, including the finan- cial burden placed on the defendant, as the claim was inadequately briefed. The trial court did not improperly admit unqualified expert testimony from the court-ordered reunification therapist, F, as this court concluded, on the basis of its review of the reco