Prioleau v. Agosta

Syllabus

The plaintiff father, who had been awarded joint legal custody of the parties' minor child by the trial court on his application for custody, appealed from the trial court's judgment denying his motion to correct a child support order that had been entered by a family support magistrate in a separate child support action brought by the defendant mother and denying his motion to reargue the motion to correct. He claimed that the court errone- ously concluded that it lacked the authority to modify the child support order. Held: The trial court properly denied the plaintiff's motion to correct the child support order, as the plaintiff had failed to timely appeal the child support order to the Superior Court pursuant to statute (§ 46b-231 (n)), and the court therefore lacked the authority to correct the child support order under the circumstances of this case. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the plaintiff's motion to reargue, as the motion did not set forth any legal basis calling into question the court's conclusion that it lacked the authority to correct the child sup- port order. Argued February 27—officially released April 15, 2025