Opinion ID: 2372843
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: current child support

Text: In the action to obtain judgment on the 1979 judgment the plaintiff filed a second count in her complaint for current child support. The trial court dismissed this count for lack of jurisdiction. Because the children were not physically within this state the court decided that it had no jurisdiction to order child support. Without examining the propriety of awarding current support, we find that the trial court erred in dismissing the second count solely because the children were not within this state. General Statutes §§46b-61, 46b-56 and 46b-93, [10] read together, provide that it is permissible under certain circumstances to award child support even though the child is not within this jurisdiction. Physical presence of the child is not a prerequisite for jurisdiction to determine his custody. General Statutes § 46b-93 (c). There is error, the judgments are set aside, and the cases are remanded with direction: (1) in the first case to render judgment for the plaintiff; and (2) in the second case to render judgment for the plaintiff on the first count and for further proceedings consistent with this opinion on the second count.