Sweet v. Sweet

This is an appeal from a series of orders of the trial court, in an action for dissolution of marriage, brought by the plaintiff, Delaine Sweet. The court, upon determining that the marriage had broken down irretrievably, dissolved the marriage and entered the financial orders from which the defendant, Rodney Sweet, has appealed.

The defendant first claims that because irretrievable breakdown was the only ground alleged in the plaintiffs action for the dissolution of the marriage, the court was prohibited from considering fault in awarding alimony and assigning property.

Section 46b-40 (c) of…