Zern v. Zern

The defendant appeals from the judgment dissolving her marriage to the plaintiff, challenging the financial orders of the trial court. The defendant claims that the trial court erred (1) in failing to consider the relevant statutory criteria in fashioning its awards of alimony, child support, and the division of the parties’ assets, and (2) in valuing the parties’ assets as of the date of the parties’ separation rather than as of the date of dissolution. We find error in part.

The plaintiff and the defendant were married on March 17,1979, and one child was born of the marriage on January 12,…