136 Conn. App. 161 - Light v. Grimes’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “The division of property and the entry of orders of alimony in dissolution proceedings are governed by General Statutes §§ 46b-81 (a) and 46b-82. Section 46b-81 (a) provides in part: ' At the time of entering a decree ... dissolving a marriage ... the superior court may assign to either the husband or wife all or any part of the estate of the other.' ... Similarly, § 46b-82 provides in part: ' At the time of entering the decree , the superior court may order either of the parties to pay alimony to the other ....' The only temporal reference in the enabling legislation refers us to the time of the decree as controlling the entry of financial orders. It is neither unreasonable nor illogical, therefore, to conclude that the same date is to be used in determining the value of the marital assets assigned by the trial court to the parties.... Section 46b-81 (a) involves the assignment of marital assets. To the extent that the plaintiff seeks consideration of a postdecree appreciation in the value of property, such appreciation, having occurred after the termination of the marriage, is no longer a marital asset.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 189 Conn. App. 353 - Laborne v. Laborne

2. “[W]hether the court properly held that the appropriate date of valuation of the parties' marital assets, for purposes of the distribution of those assets, was the date of its original decree ... is well settled and is controlled by our Supreme Court's ruling in Sunbury v. Sunbury , 216 Conn. 673 , 676, 583 A.2d 636 (1990), in which the court held that, in a marital dissolution action, the date of valuation of marital assets is the date that the dissolution decree is rendered.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 189 Conn. App. 353 - Laborne v. Laborne