Sillman v. Sillman

This controversy arises from a 1967 judgment granting a divorce to the plaintiff, Ruth Sillman, awarding her custody of her four minor children and ordering the defendant, Eugene Sill-man, to pay “$150 per month . . . for each of his minor children.” In May, 1973, the plaintiff filed a motion for contempt alleging that the defendant had “failed ... to pay for the support of the minor child, Emily” since October of 1972. To that motion the defendant filed a special defense alleging that Public Acts 1972, No. 127, § 1, now General Statutes § 1-ld, changed the age of majority from twenty-one to…