Nedder v. Nedder

Citations

• 226 Conn. App. 817

Syllabus

The defendant appealed to this court from the judgment of the trial court dissolving her marriage to the plaintiff and entering certain financial orders. Held: 1. The defendant could not prevail on her claim that the trial court did not have the authority to order the plaintiff to use specific assets to pay certain expenses and debt; it was legally and logically correct for the court to equitably divide the parties' property and to order the three financial accounts at issue to be used for their originally intended and historical purposes, as the court derived its authority to enter those orders from the statute (§ 46b-81 (a)) governing the assignment of prop- erty and the responsibility for debts when entering an order dissolving a marriage. 2. The defendant could not prevail on her claim that the trial court abused its discretion in failing to assign a value to the plaintiff's quasi-pension account prior to dividing the parties' property: this court presumed that the parties' property interest in the account was considered by the trial court when it made its equitable division of property; moreover, although the court did not state which valuation method it used, it was not required to do so, and, because the defendant failed to file a motion for articulation to clarify any potential ambiguity in how the court valued the parties' property, there was no evidence in the record supporting the defendant's claim. 3. The defendant could not prevail on her claim that the trial court abused its discretion in fashioning its alimony orders: a. The defendant's claim that the trial court based its alimony orders on the plaintiff's gross income without considering his net income failed; the plaintiff's net income was easily ascertainable, the court had exhibits in evidence showing the plaintiff's net earnings for each of the four years prior to the dissolution hearing, the court's memorandum of decision mentioned net income when determining the amount of child support, and the