Legal Opinion
LaBossiere v. Jones
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided September 22, 2009No. 29259, 29460, 29865, 30190PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
PETERS, J.
A decision to award counsel fees in a marital dissolution dispute ordinarily is based on an appraisal of the respective financial ability of each party to pay his or her own fees. See General Statutes § 46b-62; Koizim v. Koizim, 181 Conn. 492, 500-501, 435 A.2d 1030 (1980). Where, however, “a party has engaged in egregious litigation misconduct that has required the other party to expend significant amounts of money for attorney’s fees, and where the court determines, in its discretion, that the misconduct has not been addressed adequately by other orders of the court, the…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Schoonmaker v. Lawrence Brunoli, Inc.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 2003
- Koizim v. KoizimSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1980
- Grimm v. GrimmSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2005
- In Re Leah S.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 2007
- Ramin v. RaminSupreme Court of Connecticut · 2007
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3Cited by6 opinions
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