Rule 25-1. Definitions Applicable to Proceedings on Family Matters

(a) The following shall be ''family matters'' within the scope of these rules: Any actions brought pursuant to General Statutes § 46b-1, including, but not limited to, dissolution of marriage or civil union, legal separation, dissolution of marriage or civil union after legal separation, annulment of marriage or civil union, alimony, support, custody, and change of name incident to dissolution of marriage or civil union, habeas corpus and other proceedings to determine the custody and visitation of children except those which are properly filed in the Superior Court as juvenile matters, the establishing of parentage, enforcement of foreign matrimonial or civil union judgments, actions related to prenuptial or pre-civil union and separation agreements and to matrimonial or civil union decrees of a foreign jurisdiction, actions brought pursuant to General Statutes § 46b-15, custody proceedings brought under the provisions of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act and proceedings for enforcement of support brought under the provisions of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.

(b) Whenever a rule applicable to family matters as defined in subsection (a) of this Section provides for the scheduling of a motion or other matter on the short calendar, the rule may be satisfied by the scheduling of the motion or other matter for a case date, motion docket, or other court event, so long as any time periods specified in the rule for the scheduling of the matter are observed.

Committee Notes

(P.B. 1998.) (Amended June 28, 1999, to take effect Jan. 1, 2000; amended June 26, 2006, to take effect Jan. 1, 2007; amended June 12, 2015, to take effect Jan. 1, 2016; amended June 14, 2024, to take effect Jan. 1, 2025.)