MIANO v. THORNE

(14118)

218 Conn. 170 (1991)

SALLY T. MIANO ET AL. v. DORIS G. THORNE

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released March 26, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher C. Noble, for the appellants (plaintiffs).

Lloyd L. Langhammer, for the appellee (defendant).

PETERS, C. J., SHEA, GLASS, COVELLO and BORDEN, JS.


GLASS, J.

The dispositive issue in this appeal is whether the 1955 enactment of General Statutes (Sup. 1955) § 3006d,1 the first legislation in Connecticut authorizing courts to decree a "legal separation" of married persons, retroactively applies to previously entered equitable decrees of separate maintenance and support, thereby transforming such decrees into decrees of legal separation. Because § 3006d provided a remedy that...

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