Federal Child Tax Exemption Allocation
The Federal Tax Exemption for a child can be allocated by the Trial Court to the parent who is paying support. Once the tax allocation is court ordered, it is considered a nonmodifiable property settlement and can not be changed.
Hoyt v Hoyt 64 Conn.L.Rptr 13,498(2017)
Best Interest of Child in Determining Paternity
In a paternity matter a Superior Court held that a court has the inherent authority to open an acknowledgment of paternity solely on the grounds that an accurate determination of paternity would be in the child's best interests. Often men agree to paternity in the absence of a DNA test, have regrets and later obtain DNA results showing that they are not the biological father.
Muhammad v Murphy 62 Conn.L. Rpte 3, 2016
Custody Jurisdiction and Relocation
Edelson v Dubinsky 62 Conn.L. Rptr No 18, 2016
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Alimony may be terminated upon cohabitation
Alimony may be terminated upon cohabitation if the separation agreement stated that as the agreement of the parties. Typically alimony is reduced or terminated only after a hearing that the cohabitation changed the financial needs of the receiving spouse. this alimony issue was clarified in Kunschaft v Kunschaft, 2016 in 62 Con.L.Rptr.No14.
Modification of Property Distribution
A court decision in Wroniak repeated the premise that a pension benefit allocation is a property distribution and is non-modifiable except for fraud , mutual mistake or duress. The parties are free to contract any terms they want and any later regrets of a bad decision will not change the order.
site 59 Conn.L.Rptr. 2009, 2015
Challenging a Paternity Judgment
Although there is a 60 day limit to challenge a paternity judgment a Superior Court ruled that the best interests of the child permit a paternity judgment to be reopened. But only the child has the right to reopen a paternity judgment to determine their biological parent. To learn morn about establishing or enforcing paternity Click Here
Muhammad v Murphy.
