GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT · FAMILY LAW + FAMILY-VIOLENCE DEFENSE
Alimony is enforceable by the same contempt process as any other family court order, and by income withholding.
The remedies are an arrearage finding, income withholding under C.G.S. §52-362, a payment schedule, attorney’s fees under §46b-87, and contempt where the failure was wilful.
Delay rarely helps. Arrears that build over two years are harder to collect than arrears addressed after two months, and a long silence can invite an argument that you did not treat the obligation as live.
Stopping payment because circumstances changed is the single most common mistake in this area, and it is expensive.
The order remains enforceable until the court changes it. Arrears accrue at the ordered amount. And a modification can reach back, at the court’s discretion, only to the date a motion was served on the other party — not to the date you lost the job.
If you cannot pay what the order requires, file. Then negotiate.
Before anything else, read the judgment. A Connecticut judgment can make alimony non-modifiable as to amount, duration, or both. If yours does, a change in circumstances will generally not reopen it — which makes the enforcement analysis very different, for both sides.
Whether Connecticut alimony can be changed depends first on what the judgment says. Non-modifiable means non-modifiable.
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