J. E. v. J. N.

Syllabus

The defendant father appealed from the trial court's judgment awarding him joint legal custody of the parties' minor children and issuing certain other orders on the plaintiff mother's application for custody. He claimed, inter alia, that the court improperly required him to proceed with the trial in the absence of his counsel of record, who had requested and been denied a continuance. Held: This court, having determined that the defendant's unpreserved due process claim was reviewable pursuant to State v. Golding (213 Conn. 233), con- cluded that the trial court deprived the defendant of his procedural due process rights under the test established in Mathews v. Eldridge (424 U.S. 319) by requiring him to proceed with trial in the absence of his counsel of record and, thus, this court reversed the judgment of the trial court. Argued March 12—officially released June 17, 2025