2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 46b - Family Law
Chapter 816 - Support
Section 46b-212w - Pleadings and accompanying documents.

(a) In a proceeding under sections 46b-212 to 46b-213w, inclusive, a petitioner seeking to: Establish a support order, determine paternity, or register and modify a support order of another state must file a petition. Unless otherwise ordered under section 46b-212x, the petition or accompanying documents shall provide, so far as known, the name, residential address and Social Security numbers of the obligor and the obligee, or the parent and alleged parent, and the name, sex, residential address, Social Security number and date of birth of each child for whose benefit support is sought or whose paternity is to be determined. Unless filed at the time of registration, the petition shall be accompanied by a copy of any support order known to have been issued by another tribunal. The petition may include any other information that may assist in locating or identifying the respondent.

(b) The petition shall specify the relief sought. The petition and accompanying documents must conform substantially with the requirements imposed by the forms mandated by federal law for use in cases filed by a support enforcement agency.

(June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-1, S. 24, 75; P.A. 07-247, S. 34.)

History: June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-1 effective January 1, 1998; P.A. 07-247 amended Subsec. (a) by changing “verify” to “file” re petitioner’s responsibility re petition, adding that petitioner who seeks to “register and modify support order of another state must file” petition, requiring that petition include information re the “parent or alleged parent” of each child for “whose benefit support is sought or whose paternity is to be determined”, deleting requirement that certified copy of any support order in effect accompany petition and requiring that petition be accompanied by a copy of any support order “known to have been issued by another tribunal”, and made technical changes in Subsecs. (a) and (b), effective January 1, 2008.