2011 Connecticut Code
Title 46b Family Law
Chapter 815y Paternity Matters
Sec. 46b-176. (Formerly Sec. 52-443). Continued liability of person committed for failure to comply with order.

      Sec. 46b-176. (Formerly Sec. 52-443). Continued liability of person committed for failure to comply with order. No person committed to a community correctional center for failure to comply with an order of the court as provided in sections 46b-160, 46b-162 and 46b-171, or any of them, shall be entitled to any of the privileges allowed other prisoners on civil process, or to take the oath provided for poor debtors, within six months from the date of such commitment, but shall be kept at hard labor during such six months; and the mother of such child, the state or the town chargeable with its support may, at any time after the liberation of such prisoner, or after his taking said oath, recover the sum or sums due from him in pursuance of such order of court.

      (1949 Rev., S. 8184; 1957, P.A. 462, S. 5; 1969, P.A. 297.)

      History: 1969 act substituted "community correction center" for "jail"; Sec. 52-443 transferred to Sec. 46b-176 in 1979 and references to other sections within provisions revised as necessary to reflect their transfer.

      Annotations to former section 52-443:

      Cited. 128 C. 319. Cited. 165 C. 33. Cited. 169 C. 66. Cited. 170 C. 367.

      Complaint must at least allege facts from which demand can be implied. 4 CS 396. This section is mandatory and leaves no discretion with the committing court. 12 CS 65. Cited. 20 CS 350.

      Annotation to present section:

      Cited. 188 C. 354.