Divorce Settlement Agreement (Connecticut — Court-Approval Packet)

MARITAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND PROPOSED ORDER TERMS

Connecticut

Superior Court Judicial District: [____]

Court Case Number: [____]

Spouse A: [FULL LEGAL NAME]

Spouse B: [FULL LEGAL NAME]

Date Signed: [__/__/____]

IMPORTANT COURT-APPROVAL AND SAFETY GATES

The Parties confirm:

☐ Each Party supplied the asset, debt, income, expense, retirement, benefit, and tax disclosures listed in Schedule A.

☐ Each Party had the opportunity to obtain independent legal advice.

☐ Any coercion, domestic violence, stalking, abuse, protective order, safety concern, immigration concern, or unequal access to money or records has been disclosed to counsel and addressed in Schedule D.

☐ Separate deeds, retirement orders, beneficiary forms, account transfers, releases, refinancing documents, and tax forms have been identified; this Agreement does not replace them.

☐ When children are involved, the current support calculations, financial records, and complete proposed parenting plan are attached.

☐ The Parties understand that signing this Agreement does not itself enter or modify a court order.

1. BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE

1. The Parties married on [__/__/____] in [PLACE].
2. The date of separation, if disputed or relevant, is [__/__/____] / [DISPUTED].
3. Children whose custody or support may be addressed are listed in Schedule D.
4. The Parties intend to present these agreed terms to the Connecticut Superior Court in the pending or contemplated dissolution matter.
5. This Agreement resolves only the matters expressly listed. Omitted, contingent, unknown, or disputed matters remain subject to a signed amendment and any required court order.

2. DISCLOSURE AND VOLUNTARY AGREEMENT

2.1 Disclosure Record

Schedule A shall identify each disclosure, the date supplied, valuation date, source, missing record, dispute, and follow-up commitment. A general statement of full disclosure does not identify or resolve an omitted asset or debt.

2.2 Independent Review

Each Party states that the Party:

1. read this Agreement and its completed schedules;
2. understands the proposed allocation and court-approval process;
3. had sufficient time to review the terms and ask questions; and
4. signs voluntarily, subject to the disclosures and qualifications recorded here.

2.3 Reliance Record

Every valuation, refinancing promise, sale condition, tax assumption, retirement allocation, parenting commitment, or other material inducement relied upon must appear in this Agreement or an attached signed schedule.

3. PROPERTY AND DEBT

3.1 Court Framework

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46b-81 authorizes the Superior Court, when entering the decree, to assign property and transfer or order the sale of real property. The Court considers the evidence and the statutory circumstances; this packet does not presume an automatic equal division or automatic exclusion based only on title.

3.2 Property Schedules

Schedule B-1 lists property proposed for Spouse A. Schedule B-2 lists property proposed for Spouse B. Schedule B-3 lists property that is disputed, contingent, unknown, or proposed to remain jointly held.

Each entry shall state:

• exact title, account identifier, or legal description;
• each Party's asserted treatment and supporting facts;
• valuation date, method, and source;
• associated debt or lien;
• proposed allocation and equalization payment, if any;
• transfer document and deadline;
• tax and transaction-cost allocation; and
• fallback if a transfer, sale, or refinance does not occur.

3.3 Real Property

For each parcel, select and complete one route in Schedule B-3:

☐ Sale under stated listing, pricing, repair, occupancy, carrying-cost, offer, closing, and proceeds rules.

☐ Transfer to [PARTY], with refinance or lender-release deadline [DATE], interim payments, and a separately reviewed deed.

☐ Continued co-ownership under a separately reviewed co-ownership agreement.

The Parties shall not assume that an allocation between them releases either from a mortgage, lien, tax, or other third-party obligation.

3.4 Retirement and Employment Benefits

Schedule B-4 shall identify each plan, participant, administrator, valuation date, proposed share, gains and losses, loans, survivor benefit, fees, death-before-transfer treatment, and required order or form. A qualified professional shall prepare any required retirement order; this Agreement does not itself direct a plan administrator.

3.5 Debts and Creditors

Schedule C allocates payment responsibility between the Parties. It does not release a Party from a creditor, lender, taxing authority, or other third party unless that third party separately agrees.

If one Party pays a debt assigned to the other, the responsible Party shall reimburse the documented amount within [____] days after written proof, subject to any entered order and any defenses preserved in Schedule C. No marital-asset liability cap applies.

3.6 Omitted or Misstated Property

The Parties shall promptly disclose a discovered omission or material error and seek a signed amendment and any required court relief. This clause does not predetermine classification, allocation, sanctions, or remedy.

4. ALIMONY

4.1 Selection

Select one after applying Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46b-82 to the actual evidence:

☐ Each Party asks the Court to approve a mutual alimony waiver, subject to the Court's authority and the waiver terms in Schedule E.

☐ [PARTY] asks the Court to order alimony of $[____] per [____], beginning [DATE], for [TERM / UNTIL EVENT], under Schedule E.

☐ Alimony is reserved for court determination.

4.2 Factors and Findings Record

Schedule E shall record the facts and evidence relevant to the requested alimony result, including the duration of the marriage, causes asserted where applicable, age, health, income, earning capacity, education, employability, estate, needs, property allocation, and feasibility of employment where minor-child custody is relevant.

4.3 Termination and Modification

Schedule E shall state whether the proposed decree permits or precludes modification and shall identify every proposed termination, suspension, or review event. No automatic remarriage, cohabitation, annual review, cost-of-living adjustment, or other change applies unless Connecticut counsel confirms the term and the Court adopts it.

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46b-86 supplies the court process and standards for modification of covered alimony and support orders and generally bars retroactive modification outside the permitted pending-motion period. The Parties shall not privately self-execute a disputed change.

4.4 Security

Any life insurance, trust, lien, reserve, or other proposed security for alimony must be separately described in Schedule E, including ownership, premium responsibility, beneficiary, amount, duration, proof, replacement, and lapse terms.

5. CHILD CUSTODY AND PARENTING PLAN

5.1 Court-Controlled Standard

Under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46b-56, the Superior Court controls custody, care, education, visitation, and support orders and considers the best interests of the child. Proposed child-related terms remain subject to Court review. Protective and safety orders control over inconsistent private terms.

5.2 Children

5.3 Decision-Making

Proposed arrangement: ☐ Joint responsibility ☐ Sole responsibility to [PARTY] ☐ Other: [____]

Schedule D shall allocate decisions concerning health, education, records, emergency care, activities, religion or culture, travel, and dispute escalation.

5.4 Parenting Time

Schedule D shall state ordinary weeks, exchanges, holidays, school breaks, summer, travel, virtual contact, missed time, transportation, costs, child belongings, and communication. Any right of first refusal must be stated precisely.

5.5 Safety Screen

Schedule D shall identify any domestic violence, abuse, neglect, kidnapping risk, protective order, criminal case, substance-use issue, mental-health concern, weapons concern, coercive control, or other safety fact requiring findings or protected exchange, supervision, confidentiality, or restricted contact.

5.6 Relocation

This Agreement creates no universal mileage threshold or private relocation permission. Schedule D shall state a proposed notice and decision process only after counsel reviews the existing order, jurisdiction, statutory burden and factors, safety issues, school schedule, and required motion or court approval.

5.7 Modification

The Parties shall use the applicable court process for a material custody or parenting change. Informal day-to-day flexibility does not permanently amend an entered order.

6. CHILD SUPPORT AND HEALTH CARE

6.1 Current Calculation and Court Review

The Parties shall attach the current applicable Connecticut guideline calculation and complete financial inputs. The proposed amount, any deviation, and supporting evidence must be presented for Court review; a private figure does not replace the Court's support order.

6.2 Proposed Terms

6.3 Health-Care Terms

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46b-84 requires a child support order to address health-care coverage for a covered child and routes uncovered medical and dental expenses through the child-support guidelines. Schedule E shall state coverage, accessibility, cost, proof, reimbursement, uncovered expense allocation, extraordinary expense treatment, continuation, and lapse terms.

6.4 No Automatic Recalculation

Support does not automatically recalculate on a calendar date or whenever income changes. Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46b-86 supplies the court-controlled modification route, including the statutory substantial-change and guideline-deviation standards. The Parties shall use the current procedure and order.

6.5 Duration and Special Circumstances

Schedule E shall identify each child, high-school status, disability or dependency issue, the proposed duration rule, arrears treatment, and any needed terminating order. Counsel shall review the date of the initial order because § 46b-84 contains different rules for specified dependent adult children based on that date.

7. EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT

7.1 Decree-Time Choice

For each child potentially covered by Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46b-56c, select one:

☐ Request an educational support order with the decree under Schedule E.

☐ Explicitly reserve in the decree a later motion or petition for an educational support order.

☐ Request Court acceptance of a legally reviewed waiver.

Section 46b-56c generally does not permit a later educational-support motion after the decree unless the decree explicitly reserves it. Any order remains subject to the required finding, statutory considerations, enrollment conditions, duration limits, and expense rules.

7.2 Proposed Terms

Schedule E shall state the child, institution or decision process, eligible expenses, payment shares, financial-aid treatment, records access, payment recipient, duration, statutory cap treatment, and modification or enforcement route.

8. TAXES, INSURANCE, AND BENEFITS

8.1 Tax Returns

Schedule E shall state the tax year, filing approach, information exchange, preparer, estimated payments, refunds, liabilities, audits, amended returns, and reimbursement process after tax advice.

8.2 Child-Related Tax Benefits

No dependency, filing-status, or tax-credit allocation is made merely by checking a box in this Agreement. Schedule E must record the current eligibility analysis, required release or tax form, alternating-year terms if any, information delivery, and fallback.

8.3 Insurance and Beneficiary Designations

Schedule E shall identify each policy or account, current designation, proposed change, plan or order restriction, deadline, proof, and interim death risk. Support security must use the detail required by Sections 4.4 and 6.3.

9. COURT SUBMISSION, ENFORCEMENT, AND MODIFICATION

9.1 Court Review

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 46b-66 requires the Court to inquire into the parties' financial resources, actual needs, and child-related fitness as applicable and to determine whether the final agreement is fair and equitable under all the circumstances. A written agreement found fair and equitable is incorporated by reference into the order or decree.

If the Court rejects or requires revision of a provision, the Parties shall confer with counsel and submit a compliant revision. No drafting neutral may unilaterally rewrite property, alimony, custody, or support terms.

9.2 Enforcement

A Party claiming noncompliance shall identify the entered order or surviving contract term, the facts, requested cure, and urgency. Contempt, fees, execution, withholding, interest, and other relief depend on the entered order, applicable law, procedure, and Court findings; this Agreement promises none automatically.

9.3 Modification

Property, alimony, custody, child support, health-care support, and educational support have different modification rules. Schedule F shall identify the proposed decree treatment and correct route for each category after Connecticut counsel reviews it.

9.4 No Commercial Dispute Boilerplate

This packet contains no private arbitration clause, jury waiver, marital-asset liability cap, force majeure clause, exclusive “Family Division” forum promise, blanket injunction, automatic cure period, or automatic prevailing-party fee clause.

10. GENERAL TERMS

10.1 Further Documents

Each Party shall sign the separate documents specifically listed in Schedule F after review. No Party must sign a document that materially changes the agreed economic or parenting terms.

10.2 Notices Between Parties

Routine notices use the addresses and methods in Schedule F. Court, support, tax, plan, deed, creditor, safety, or other formal notices must use their separate required process.

10.3 Amendments

An amendment must be in a signed record and receive any required court approval. Informal parenting flexibility does not permanently amend an order.

10.4 Assignment

No Party may assign a personal family-law duty. Schedule F shall address any transferable property-payment right after counsel review.

10.5 Severability

If a provision cannot be approved or enforced, the remaining provisions shall be considered under their own terms and the Court's authority. Severability does not authorize rewriting child, support, alimony, or property terms without consent and required approval.

10.6 Copies and Signature Evidence

Schedule F shall identify the approved signing method, custody of originals, filing copy, and any notarization, acknowledgment, witness, or paper-original requirement for a separate deed, plan document, affidavit, or other instrument. This clause does not declare every electronic signature sufficient for every related document.

11. SIGNATURES

Each Party confirms that the completed schedules were attached before signing and that no blank selection or material term remains unresolved except an item expressly marked for Court determination.

Attorney for Spouse A, if any: [NAME / JURIS NUMBER / SIGNATURE / DATE]

Attorney for Spouse B, if any: [NAME / JURIS NUMBER / SIGNATURE / DATE]

SCHEDULE A — DISCLOSURE INDEX

Include income, expenses, tax returns, real property, accounts, securities, businesses, retirement, insurance, benefits, personal property, claims, trusts, digital assets, debts, guarantees, and contingent interests.

SCHEDULE B — PROPERTY ALLOCATION

• B-1: Property proposed for Spouse A
• B-2: Property proposed for Spouse B
• B-3: Real property; disputed, contingent, unknown, or jointly retained property
• B-4: Retirement and employment benefits

SCHEDULE C — DEBT ALLOCATION

SCHEDULE D — CHILDREN, PARENTING, AND SAFETY

Complete the child table, decision-making allocation, ordinary schedule, holidays, exchanges, communication, travel, relocation process, safety findings requested, current orders, jurisdiction facts, and unresolved issues.

SCHEDULE E — ALIMONY, SUPPORT, EDUCATION, TAX, AND INSURANCE

Record every calculation, factual input, proposed finding, payment route, duration, modification term, security term, educational-support choice, tax allocation, insurance obligation, beneficiary designation, and required form.

SCHEDULE F — IMPLEMENTATION AND COURT SUBMISSION

List the proposed decree, filing steps, deeds, retirement orders, account transfers, refinancing, releases, vehicle documents, tax forms, insurance proof, notice addresses, amendment process, and issue-specific enforcement or modification route.