Family Courts and Juvenile Courts in Connecticut have the authority to order hair follicle testing to determine whether there is a pattern of drug use. I have seen these tests ordered with increasing frequency as the reliability of these tests are now widely accepted. The standard hair follicle test goes back about 90 days and…
Motions for Modification and Motions for Contempt are the two most common post-judgment divorce motions in Connecticut. Motions for Contempt are typically filed to enforce an existing court order. For example, where a parent owes child support or wrongfully withheld visitation. In Connecticut, noncompliance of a valid court order is not enough to have…
Post judgment motions are simply motions filed after you have been divorced. At the time of a divorce, certain orders are entered. All of these orders make up the divorce judgment. A post judgment motion is filed to address orders within the divorce judgment. A post judgment motion usually falls into one of two categories:…
Automatic Orders in a Connecticut divorce are essentially restraining orders, which take effect at the beginning of a divorce case. The Orders are designed to maintain the “status quo” so that one spouse does not take advantage of the other spouse. The Orders attempt to make the early stages of a divorce more efficient and…
What can be done when a court order is not obeyed? For example, what can be done after a divorce judgment when an alimony or child support order has not been paid in a timely fashion or not paid at all? How about when there are unreimbursed medical expenses owed or court ordered visitation has…
The Family Support Magistrate Courts in Connecticut hear cases involving paternity, establishing the amount of child support, modifying the amount of child support (increase or decrease the current support order) and enforcing the payment of child support (contempt). Divorces and issues of visitation are not heard in Family Support Magistrate Court but rather in the…