Mark v. Mark

The defendant appealed from the trial court’s postjudgment denial of his motion to modify alimony and a judgment of contempt. Subsequently, he amended his appeal to challenge two other judgments of contempt of the alimony order. The plaintiff moves this court to dismiss the appeal and the amended appeal on the basis of the defendant’s alleged continual pattern of contemptuous conduct, or, in the alternative, to stay the appeal until the defendant purges himself of contempt under the rationale of Greenwood v. Greenwood, 191 Conn. 309, 464 A.2d 771 (1983).

When a party seeks appellate…