Simons v. Simons

The plaintiff and the defendant were divorced on November 17, 1972. The defendant mother was awarded custody of her two children: Katherine, born in 1960, the issue of a prior marriage (adopted by the plaintiff in 1965), and David, born in 1965 of the marriage of the parties. On June 7, 1974, on the plaintiff’s motion a state trial referee, acting as a court under General Statutes § 52-434a, awarded custody of David to the plaintiff father, with rights of visitation in the mother. The defendant appealed from the decision of the referee.

Section 46-42 of the General Statutes gives courts broad…