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CT Gen Stat § 46b-219. (Formerly Sec. 17-326) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 816 - Support|Section 46b-219. (Formerly Sec. 17-326) - No liability for support of deserting parent.

 No person shall be liable under any provision of the general statutes for the support of a parent who wilfully deserted such person continuously during the ten-year period prior to such person reaching his majority. For the purposes of this section, wilful desertion means total neglect of parental responsibility in failing to provide reasonable support and care within the financial capability of the parent. Any person claiming the provisions of this section as a defense shall have the burden of proof of such wilful desertion.(1957, P.A. 475.)History: Sec. 17-326 transferred to Sec. 46b-219 in 1979.Annotations to former section 17-326:Cited. 31 CS 271; 33 CS 769; 34 CS 284.“Wilful desertion” means intentional desertion; parental responsibility is obligation to furnish protection, education and support; where defendant's mother was divorced by his father with whom he lived and, despite her history of alcoholism and drug addiction, she attempted to obtain his custody on several occasions, trial court could conclude there was no desertion under statute. 4 Conn. Cir. Ct. 643.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-221 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 816 - Support|Section 46b-221 - Notice to delinquent child support obligors by Commissioner of Social Services re availability of remedy of license suspension.

 The Commissioner of Social Services may provide notice to all IV-D delinquent child support obligors of the availability of the remedy of suspension of motor vehicle operator's licenses and professional, occupational and recreational licenses pursuant to section 46b-220. Such notice shall comply with the provisions of section 52-362g.(P.A. 95-310, S. 6, 9; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-7, S. 33, 38.)History: P.A. 95-310 effective January 1, 1996; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-7 added reference to recreational licenses, effective July 1, 1997.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-222 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 816 - Support|Section 46b-222 - Regulations.

 The Department of Social Services may adopt regulations in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 to implement the provisions of section 46b-220.(P.A. 95-310, S. 7, 9.)History: P.A. 95-310 effective January 1, 1996.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-223 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 816 - Support|Section 46b-223 - Rules of court.

 The judges of the Superior Court may adopt any rules they deem necessary to implement the provisions of section 46b-220, including the application of said section to the practice of law.(P.A. 95-310, S. 8, 9; P.A. 07-247, S. 59.)History: P.A. 95-310 effective January 1, 1996; P.A. 07-247 deleted provision that required Office of the Chief Court Administrator to prescribe any forms required to implement Sec. 46b-220.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-224 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 816 - Support|Section 46b-224 - Effect of court order changing or transferring guardianship or custody of child on preexisting support order.

 Whenever the Probate Court, in a guardianship matter under chapter 802h, or the Superior Court, in a family relations matter, as defined in section 46b-1, orders a change or transfer of the guardianship or custody of a child who is the subject of a preexisting support order, and the court makes no finding with respect to such support order, such guardianship or custody order shall operate to: (1) Suspend the support order if guardianship or custody is transferred to the obligor under the support order; or (2) modify the payee of the support order to be the person or entity awarded guardianship or custody of the child by the court, if such person or entity is other than the obligor under the support order.(P.A. 04-100, S. 8; P.A. 07-247, S. 60.)History: P.A. 04-100 effective May 10, 2004; P.A. 07-247 replaced “juvenile matter under chapter 815t” with “family relations matter, as defined in section 46b-1”.Section applies to all support orders notwithstanding express language in the order barring future modification; to the extent that the application of the specific language of this section to suspend or modify a support order that purports to preclude modification appears to conflict with the general language of Sec. 46b-86(a), this section must prevail. 305 C. 539.Section only speaks to child support and does not give a party the right to suspend his alimony obligation. 159 CA 805. To the extent that section conflicts with general provisions of Sec. 46b-86(a) precluding retroactive modification of child support unless service of process requirement in Sec. 52-50 is satisfied, this section must prevail; no practical distinction between a suspension and a modification for purposes of applying section; child support portion of unallocated support award was subject to retroactive modification; section has no bearing on alimony. 161 CA 271.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-225 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 816 - Support|Section 46b-225 - Judicial marshal authorized to serve capias mittimus or copy thereof issued in child support matter.

 Any judicial marshal may serve a capias mittimus or a copy thereof made by any photographic, micrographic, electronic imaging or other process, which clearly and accurately copies such original document, provided such judicial marshal or Support Enforcement Services of the Superior Court is in possession of the original document, on any person who is in the custody of the marshal or is in a courthouse where the marshal provides courthouse security if such capias mittimus was issued in a child support matter by (1) a court or a family support magistrate pursuant to subdivision (8) of subsection (a) of section 17b-745 or subparagraph (C) of subdivision (8) of subsection (a) of section 46b-215; or (2) a family support magistrate pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (m) of section 46b-231.(P.A. 11-219, S. 18; P.A. 15-85, S. 6.)History: P.A. 15-85 added provision re judicial marshal may serve copy of capias mittimus provided judicial marshal or Support Enforcement Services of the Superior Court is in possession of original document.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-232 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 816 - Support|Section 46b-232 - Alteration or setting aside of support order by family support magistrate, when.

 A family support magistrate may alter or set aside (1) any order for payment of support issued by a family support magistrate at any time or (2) any order for payment of support issued by the superior court at any time upon referral of such order by the superior court.(P.A. 86-359, S. 34, 44.)
CT Gen Stat § 46b-232a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 816 - Support|Section 46b-232a - Authority of family support magistrates re order for obligor's participation in program and suspension of or election not to impose support order. Reports.

 (a) In all IV-D support cases, family support magistrates shall have the authority to enter an order for the obligor's participation in an educational, training, skill-building, work, rehabilitation or other similar program, provided the family support magistrate finds that such an order will significantly increase the obligor's ability to fulfill the duty of support within a reasonable period of time. When such an order is entered, the family support magistrate shall also enter an order regarding the reporting of the obligor's compliance with such program.(b) Upon motion and after hearing, a family support magistrate may suspend payment of a specified support order, in whole or in part, or elect not to impose or order specified court-based enforcement actions, provided the obligor is participating in a program described in subsection (a) of this section.(c) On or before July 1, 2010, and on or before July 1, 2011, the Chief Court Administrator shall submit the reports of the Problem Solving in Family Matters Committee of the Judicial Branch detailing such committee's findings to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to human services and the select committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to children in accordance with section 11-4a.(P.A. 09-175, S. 2.)
CT Gen Stat § 46b-233 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 816 - Support|Section 46b-233 - Longevity payments.

 Each family support magistrate, who has completed not less than ten years of service as such magistrate, or other state service or service as an elected officer of the state, or any combination of such service, shall receive semiannual longevity payments based on such service completed as of the first day of July and the first day of January of each year as follows:(1) A family support magistrate who has completed ten or more years but less than fifteen years of service shall receive one-quarter of three per cent of the annual salary payable under subsection (h) of section 46b-231;(2) A family support magistrate who has completed fifteen or more years but less than twenty years of service shall receive one-half of three per cent of the annual salary payable under said subsection (h) of section 46b-231;(3) A family support magistrate who has completed twenty or more years but less than twenty-five years of service shall receive three-quarters of three per cent of the annual salary payable under said subsection (h) of section 46b-231; and(4) A family support magistrate who has completed twenty-five or more years of service shall receive three per cent of the annual salary payable under said subsection (h) of section 46b-231.(P.A. 89-360, S. 17, 45; P.A. 93-379, S. 6, 8.)History: P.A. 93-379 allowed credit for longevity purposes for any other state service or service as an elected official of the state or a combination of service, effective June 30, 1993.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-234 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 816 - Support|Section 46b-234 - Report by the Attorney General to IV-D agency re performance standards.

 Section 46b-234 is repealed, effective June 23, 1999.(P.A. 90-213, S. 44, 56; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-5, S. 19, 30; P.A. 99-193, S. 15, 16.)
CT Gen Stat § 46b-235 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 816 - Support|Section 46b-235 - Applicability of sections in relation to any bargaining unit designation, award, settlement, benefit, existing employment practice or classification of any employee.

 The provisions of subsection (a) of section 4a-2, subsection (a) of section 4a-12, sections 17b-137, 17b-179, 17b-745, 46b-172, 46b-207, 46b-208, 46b-215, 46b-218, 46b-231 and 46b-235, subsection (a) of section 51-348a, subsection (d) of section 52-50, sections 52-259a, 52-362, 52-362c to 52-362f, inclusive, and 53-304 shall not be construed to alter, modify, impair or change existing collective bargaining agreements, any bargaining unit designation, award, settlement, benefit, existing employment practice or classification of any employee in the event of transfer from one division, bureau or agency or department to another division, agency or department.(P.A. 90-213, S. 45, 56; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-1, S. 68, 75; P.A. 99-193, S. 14, 16.)History: June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-1 made technical changes, effective January 1, 1998; P.A. 99-193 deleted reference to Sec. 46b-234, effective June 23, 1999.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-301 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 817 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 46b-301 - Short title.

 Sections 46b-301 to 46b-425, inclusive, may be cited as the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.(P.A. 15-71, S. 1.)History: P.A. 15-71 effective July 1, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-303 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 817 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 46b-303 - State tribunal and support enforcement agency.

 (a) The Superior Court and the Family Support Magistrate Division of the Superior Court are the tribunals of this state.(b) The Office of Child Support Services within the Department of Social Services and Support Enforcement Services of the Superior Court are the support enforcement agencies of this state.(P.A. 15-71, S. 3; P.A. 16-13, S. 10.)History: P.A. 15-71 effective July 1, 2015; P.A. 16-13 amended Subsec. (b) to replace “Bureau of Child Support Enforcement” with “Office of Child Support Services”, effective May 6, 2016.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-304 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 817 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 46b-304 - Remedies cumulative.

 (a) Remedies provided by sections 46b-301 to 46b-425, inclusive, are cumulative and do not affect the availability of remedies under other law or the recognition of a foreign support order on the basis of comity.(b) Sections 46b-301 to 46b-425, inclusive, do not (1) provide the exclusive method of establishing or enforcing a support order under the law of this state; or (2) grant a tribunal of this state jurisdiction to render judgment or issue an order relating to child custody or visitation in a proceeding under sections 46b-301 to 46b-425, inclusive.(P.A. 15-71, S. 4.)History: P.A. 15-71 effective July 1, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-305 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 817 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 46b-305 - Application of act to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding.

 (a) A tribunal of this state shall apply sections 46b-301 to 46b-394, inclusive, and, as applicable, sections 46b-398 to 46b-410, inclusive, to a support proceeding involving (1) a foreign support order; (2) a foreign tribunal; or (3) an obligee, obligor or child residing in a foreign country.(b) A tribunal of this state that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order on the basis of comity may apply the procedural and substantive provisions of sections 46b-301 to 46b-394, inclusive.(c) Sections 46b-398 to 46b-410, inclusive, apply only to a support proceeding under the Convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of sections 46b-398 to 46b-410, inclusive, is inconsistent with sections 46b-301 to 46b-394, inclusive, sections 46b-398 to 46b-410, inclusive, control.(P.A. 15-71, S. 5.)History: P.A. 15-71 effective July 1, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-311 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 817 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 46b-311 - Bases for jurisdiction over nonresident.

 (a) In a proceeding to establish or enforce a support order or to determine parentage of a child, a tribunal of this state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual or the individual's guardian or conservator if (1) the individual is personally served with process within this state; (2) the individual submits to the jurisdiction of this state by consent in a record, by entering a general appearance or by filing a responsive document having the effect of waiving any contest to personal jurisdiction; (3) the individual resided with the child in this state; (4) the individual resided in this state and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child; (5) the child resides in this state as a result of the acts or directives of the individual; (6) the individual engaged in sexual intercourse in this state and the child may have been conceived by that act of intercourse; or (7) there is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of this state and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.(b) The bases of personal jurisdiction set forth in subsection (a) or in any other law of this state may not be used to acquire personal jurisdiction for a tribunal of this state to modify a child support order of another state unless the requirements of section 46b-386 are met, or, in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of section 46b-393 are met.(P.A. 15-71, S. 6.)History: P.A. 15-71 effective July 1, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-312 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 817 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 46b-312 - Duration of personal jurisdiction.

 Personal jurisdiction acquired by a tribunal of this state in a proceeding under sections 46b-301 to 46b-425, inclusive, or other law of this state relating to a support order continues as long as a tribunal of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its order or continuing jurisdiction to enforce its order as provided by sections 46b-315, 46b-316 and 46b-321.(P.A. 15-71, S. 7.)History: P.A. 15-71 effective July 1, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-313 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 817 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 46b-313 - Initiating and responding tribunal of state.

 Under sections 46b-301 to 46b-425, inclusive, a tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to forward proceedings to a tribunal of another state and as a responding tribunal for proceedings initiated in another state or a foreign country.(P.A. 15-71, S. 8.)History: P.A. 15-71 effective July 1, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-314 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 817 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 46b-314 - Simultaneous proceedings.

 (a) A tribunal of this state may exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition or comparable pleading is filed after a pleading is filed in another state or a foreign country only if (1) the petition or comparable pleading in this state is filed before the expiration of the time allowed in the other state or the foreign country for filing a responsive pleading challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by the other state or the foreign country; (2) the contesting party timely challenges the exercise of jurisdiction in the other state or the foreign country; and (3) if relevant, this state is the home state of the child.(b) A tribunal of this state may not exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition or comparable pleading is filed before a petition or comparable pleading is filed in another state or a foreign country if (1) the petition or comparable pleading in the other state or foreign country is filed before the expiration of the time allowed in this state for filing a responsive pleading challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by this state; (2) the contesting party timely challenges the exercise of jurisdiction in this state; and (3) if relevant, the other state or foreign country is the home state of the child.(P.A. 15-71, S. 9.)History: P.A. 15-71 effective July 1, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-315 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 817 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 46b-315 - Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify child support order.

 (a) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child support order consistent with the law of this state has and shall exercise continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its child support order if the order is the controlling order and (1) at the time of the filing of a request for modification this state is the residence of the obligor, the individual obligee or the child for whose benefit the support order is issued; or (2) even if this state is not the residence of the obligor, the individual obligee or the child for whose benefit the support order is issued, the parties consent in a record or in open court that the tribunal of this state may continue to exercise jurisdiction to modify its order.(b) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child support order consistent with the law of this state may not exercise continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the order if (1) all of the parties who are individuals file consent in a record with the tribunal of this state that a tribunal of another state that has jurisdiction over at least one of the parties who is an individual or that is located in the state of residence of the child may modify the order and assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction; or (2) its order is not the controlling order.(c) If a tribunal of another state has issued a child support order pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, as amended from time to time, or a law substantially similar to that act which modifies a child support order of a tribunal of this state, tribunals of this state shall recognize the continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of the tribunal of the other state.(d) A tribunal of this state that lacks continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify a child support order may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to modify a support order issued in that state.(e) A temporary support order issued ex parte or pending resolution of a jurisdictional conflict does not create continuing, exclusive jurisdiction in the issuing tribunal.(P.A. 15-71, S. 10.)History: P.A. 15-71 effective July 1, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-316 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 817 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 46b-316 - Continuing jurisdiction to enforce child support order.

 (a) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child support order consistent with the law of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce (1) the order if the order is the controlling order and has not been modified by a tribunal of another state that assumed jurisdiction pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act; or (2) a money judgment for arrears of support and interest on the order accrued before a determination that an order of a tribunal of another state is the controlling order.(b) A tribunal of this state having continuing jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce the order.(P.A. 15-71, S. 11.)History: P.A. 15-71 effective July 1, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-318 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 817 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 46b-318 - Child support orders for two or more obligees.

 In responding to registrations or petitions for enforcement of two or more child support orders in effect at the same time with regard to the same obligor and different individual obligees, at least one of which was issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country, a tribunal of this state shall enforce those orders in the same manner as if the orders had been issued by a tribunal of this state.(P.A. 15-71, S. 13.)History: P.A. 15-71 effective July 1, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 46b-319 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 46b - Family Law|Chapter 817 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 46b-319 - Credit for payments.

 A tribunal of this state shall credit amounts collected for a particular period pursuant to any child support order against the amounts owed for the same period under any other child support order for support of the same child issued by a tribunal of this state, another state or a foreign country.(P.A. 15-71, S. 14.)History: P.A. 15-71 effective July 1, 2015.