DocketNumber: No. FA 93-354420
Citation Numbers: 1999 Conn. Super. Ct. 9228
Judges: STEVENS, JUDGE.
Filed Date: 7/13/1999
Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 4/18/2021
The court finds that the defendant failed to comply with the court's child support order and that this failure was wilful and contemptuous. Although the defendant's loss of employment created a substantial change of his financial circumstances adversely affecting his ability to make regularly the weekly child support payments, the defendant admits that he made no payments whatsoever even after he began receiving unemployment compensation in April. With the stream of income from the unemployment compensation, the court finds that the defendant was capable of making at least some of the support payments and the court finds that his total and complete disregard of the court's order contemptuous.
The court finds an arrearage of $5,400. As a sanction, the court orders that this arrearage be paid in full even though the court has granted the defendant's motion to modify the child support; the order granting the motion to modify shall not be applied retroactively.
So ordered July 13, 1999.
Stevens, J. CT Page 9230