GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT · FAMILY LAW + FAMILY-VIOLENCE DEFENSE
The weekly support figure is not the whole order. Three other categories are addressed, and they generate more post-judgment litigation than the base number does.
Under C.G.S. §46b-84(f), the court orders medical and dental insurance coverage for the children — typically requiring whichever parent has reasonable access to coverage to maintain it. Where insurance is unavailable, cash medical support may be ordered instead.
Co-pays, deductibles, orthodontia, therapy, prescriptions, and anything insurance does not cover are typically shared in proportion to each parent’s share of combined income.
This is the most-litigated item in Connecticut post-judgment support practice, and rarely because the amounts are large. It is because the orders are vague.
A workable order specifies:
An order saying only “the parties shall share unreimbursed medical expenses in proportion to income” guarantees a dispute within two years.
Qualifying childcare costs — those reasonably necessary to allow a parent to work — are allocated similarly.
The underlying problem is usually the drafting rather than the parent. Enforcement is available, and so is a motion to clarify an order too vague to enforce. Sometimes fixing the order is the better remedy.
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