CT HB06927

Amends property division standards (Section 46b-81) to require courts consider tax consequences of property awards and both gross and net income when determining estate assignments in divorce, annulment, or legal separation cases.

Modifies alimony award criteria (Section 46b-82) to include consideration of tax consequences and clarifies that courts must articulate specific reasons when ordering alimony that terminates only upon death or remarriage.

Updates legal separation procedures (Section 46b-65) to streamline the process for resuming marital relations and requires courts to incorporate financial terms from legal separation decrees into subsequent divorce decrees unless unconscionable.

Establishes new standards for modifying alimony orders (Section 46b-86) by creating a rebuttable presumption that cohabitation in a marriage-like relationship for six months or more warrants modification and shifts burden of proof to the alimony recipient, plus allows modification when payer retires at age 65 or older.

All amendments effective October 1, 2015.