People v. Ashkinadze

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• concluding that trial court had statutory authority to entertain and determine plaintiff's claim seeking modification of dissolution judgment where parties submitted issue to court, postdissolution, by agreement
• holding that § 46b-86 [a] does not deprive trial court of subject matter jurisdiction, and that trial court properly exercised its statutory authority under General Statutes § 52-212a to open dissolution judgment because parties voluntarily submitted to court's jurisdiction
• distinguishing between trial court’s subject matter jurisdiction and its statutory authority to open and modify dissolution judgment
• following reasoning in Amodio concerning distinction between jurisdiction and exercise of authority
• General Statutes § 46b-86 [a] does not deprive trial court of subject matter jurisdiction to modify property distribution order
• ‘‘[t]he purpose of a property division pursuant to a dissolution proceeding is to unscramble existing marital property in order to give each spouse his or her equitable share at the time of dissolution’’ [internal quotation marks omitted]

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