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![handle is hein.barjournals/conebaj0049 and id is 1 raw text is: SURVEY OF 1974 DEVELOPMENTS
SURVEY OF 1974 DEVELOPMENTS
IN CONNECTICUT FAMILY LAW
By SAMUEL V. SCHOONMAKER, III*
ARTHUR E. BALBRER**
On October 1, 1973 sweeping new legislation pertaining
to termination of marriage took effect in Connecticut. Dur-
ing the ensuing year deficiencies in this legislation were
remedied by the General Assembly. The purpose of this
article is to summarize and analyze these statutory changes
and to survey recent court decisions dealing with family
matters.
JURISDICTION
Residency and other jurisdictional requirements for grant-
ing decrees of dissolution or legal separation have been
changed and clarified by Sections 1 through 3 of Public
Act 74-169 which repealed and replaced Section 1 (c), 3 and
4 of Public Act 73-373.' Section 1 of the 1974 Act now makes
it clear that irretrievable marriage breakdown and eighteen-
month separation by reason of incompatibility with no rea-
sonable prospect of reconciliation are causes for the entry
of a decree of dissolution or legal separation as well as such
traditional grounds for divorce as adultery, intolerable cruel-
ty, desertion, etc. Therefore, Section 2, which provides that
the court has jurisdiction to dissolve a marriage or grant a
legal separation if . . . the cause for the dissolution of the
marriage arose subsequently to the removal of either party
into this state ...... apparently means that this particular
jurisdictional basis for the entry of a dissolution or separa-
* Chairman, Family Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association,
1971-1974. Of the Stamford Bar.
** Vice-Chairman, Family Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Associa-
tion, i974-present. Of the Westport Bar.
1 Hereinafter Public Act 73-373 (the original dissolution law) will be re-
ferred to as the 1973 Act, and Public Act 74-169 will be referred to as the
1974 Act.
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