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Family Law Appellate Court Opinions

by Dowd, Jeffrey

 

AC45226 - Buchenholz v. Buchenholz (Dissolution of Marriage, "On appeal, the defendant claims that (1) the court abused its discretion when it purportedly amended the plaintiff’s complaint to allege intolerable cruelty, rather than the irretrievable breakdown of the marriage, as the ground for dissolution, (2) he did not receive adequate notice that the plaintiff would introduce testimony at trial in support of the purported ground of intolerable cruelty, and (3) the court abused its discretion in awarding alimony to the plaintiff. We affirm the judgment of the trial court."

AC45268 - Pencheva-Hasse v. Hasse (Dissolution of Marriage, On appeal, the defendant claims that the court (1) improperly applied the child support guidelines, (2) abused its discretion in adopting the guardian ad litem’s custody recommendations, and (3) abused its discretion in its property distribution orders.2 We affirm the judgment of the court.