177 Conn. App. 544 - Ray v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
March 2025
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Unkelbach v. McNary · Maturo v. Maturo · Otto v. Comm'r of Corr. · Misthopoulos v. Misthopoulos · Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone v. Connecticut Siting Council
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“(a) Upon or subsequent to the annulment or dissolution of any marriage or the entry of a decree of legal separation or divorce, the parents of a minor child of the marriage, shall maintain the child according to their respective abilities, if the child is in need of maintenance. ... * * * "(d) In determining whether a child is in need of maintenance and, if in need, the respective abilities of the parents to provide such maintenance and the amount thereof, the court shall consider the age, health, station, occupation, earning capacity, amount and sources of income, estate, vocational skills and employability of each of the parents, and the age, health, station, occupation, educational status and expectation, amount and sources of income, vocational skills, employability, estate and needs of the child. ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] court must base its child support and alimony orders on the available net income of the parties .... Whether ... an order falls within this prescription must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. Thus, while our decisional law in this regard consistently affirms the basic tenet that support and alimony orders must be based on net income, the proper application of this principle is context specific.... [T]he trial court is not required to make specific reference to the criteria that it considered in making its decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It has long been established that the guidelines, as promulgated by a commission empowered pursuant to legislation enacted in 1989; see Public Acts 1989, No. 89-203; were intended to substantially [circumscribe] the traditionally broad judicial discretion of the court in matters of child support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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