Legal Opinion
Eldridge v. Eldridge
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided April 21, 1998No. SC 15716PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
KATZ, J.
The plaintiff husband appeals from the Appellate Court’s affirmance of an order of contempt for his failure to pay weekly alimony. We conclude that it was not an abuse of the trial court’s discretion to hold the plaintiff in contempt but that it was an abuse of its discretion to award the defendant attorney’s fees of $15,067.50. Accordingly, we reverse that part of the Appellate Court judgment.
*525The record discloses the following facts. The parties were divorced on November 14, 1983. As part of the dissolution, the plaintiff, Stephen C. Eldridge, was ordered to pay periodic…
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