M. B. v. S. A.

Citations

• 194 Conn. App. 721

Syllabus

The plaintiff appealed to this court from the judgment of the trial court denying an application for relief from abuse that he had filed, pursuant to statute (§ 46b-15), and issuing sanctions against him. On appeal, the plaintiff claimed, inter alia, that the trial court, in making certain findings, failed to consider certain facts in evidence. Held: 1. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the plaintiff's application for relief from abuse from the defendant; the record showed that the court did, in fact, consider the evidence that the plaintiff claimed it ignored, the factual findings made by the court were supported by testimony that the court alone had the discretion to credit or to disregard, and the fact that the plaintiff disagreed with the outcome did not render the court's factual findings clearly erroneous. 2. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in issuing sanctions against the plaintiff and ordering him to pay attorney's fees to the defendant pursuant to the applicable rule of practice (§ 1-25) for filing a frivolous application; that court made it clear that it considered the plaintiff's actions throughout the course of the parties' litigation and, in the context of § 1-25, found the plaintiff's argument that he had a good faith basis for filing the application at issue to be unpersuasive. Argued October 10—officially released December 10, 2019