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Family Law Appellate Court Opinions

by Roy, Christopher

 

AC44101, AC44184 - L. W. v. M. W. ("These two appeals arise out of three separate postjudgment motions for contempt filed by the plaintiff, L. W.In Docket No. AC 44101, the plaintiff appeals from the judgment of the trial court denying her motion for contempt dated November 25, 2019, and filed on November 27, 2019 (November, 2019 motion), alleging that the trial court abused its discretion by failing to find the defendant, M. W., in contempt.In Docket No. AC 44184, the defendant appeals from the judgments of the trial court granting the plaintiff's two motions for contempt dated October 24, 2019, and filed on October 25, 2019 (October, 2019 motions), alleging that the trial court abused its discretion by finding him in contempt. We agree with the plaintiff in AC 44101 and decline to review the defendant's claims in AC 44184 because the defendant has failed to provide us with an adequate record. Accordingly, we reverse the judgment of the trial court denying the plaintiff's November, 2019 motion for contempt and remand the case for further proceedings on that motion, and we affirm the judgments of the trial court granting the plaintiff's October, 2019 motions for contempt.")

AC43946 - McCormick v. Terrell ("In this marital dissolution case, the defendant, David Terrell, appeals from the trial court's postjudgment award of attorney's fees in the amount of $7500 to the plaintiff, Shaye McCormick, for her defense of a motion to modify the dissolution judgment filed by the defendant.The defendant claims that, in ordering him to pay the plaintiff's attorney's fees, the trial court applied the incorrect legal standard in that it failed to determine that the plaintiff lacked ample liquid funds to pay her own attorney's fees. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.")