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KENNETH W. CLARK v. MARY ANN CLARK (AC 32388)
Bishop, Beach and Sullivan, Js. Argued May 31--officially released August 23, 2011

(Appeal from Superior Court, judicial district of Stamford-Norwalk, Malone, J.) Mary Ann Clark, pro se, the appellant (defendant). Kenneth W. Clark, pro se, the appellee (plaintiff).

Opinion

BEACH, J. The defendant, Mary Ann Clark, appeals from the judgment of the trial court dissolving her marriage to the plaintiff, Kenneth W. Clark, and from the entry of various postjudgment orders. On appeal, the defendant raises several claims that were resolved in a prior appeal.1 The defendant also claims that the court erred in failing to grant two of her pro se applications for subpoenas.2 We affirm the judgment of the trial court. The parties were married in 1987. The parties have two minor children. The plaintiff commenced this marital dissolution action in June, 2006. Following a trial, the court, by memorandum of decision filed August 18, 2009, dissolved the parties' marriage and issued various orders. The court awarded sole legal and physical custody of the two minor children to the defendant and ordered the plaintiff to pay child support. The court also ordered that the parties list for sale their real estate property in Greenwich and in Boca Raton, Florida. The defendant was to receive 65 percent of the net proceeds and the plaintiff 35 percent. In September, 2009, the defendant appealed from the judgment of dissolution. We reversed the judgment insofar as it failed to include the arrearage of pendente lite support and remanded the case for further proceedings as to that issue, and affirmed the judgment in all other respects. Clark v. Clark, 127 Conn. App. 148, 160, 13 A.3d 682, cert. denied, 301 Conn. 914, 19 A.3d 1260 (2011). In September, 2009, the defendant filed a motion to reargue and/or to open the judgment of dissolution. The court held a hearing on the motion on March 8, 2010. The court granted reargument but denied the motion in all other respects. The defendant filed the present appeal on March 12, 2010, challenging the judgment of dissolution and the court's ruling denying relief on the motion to reargue and/or to open. The defendant filed amended appeals to include various later rulings of the court. We now turn to the defendant's claim that the court improperly denied two of her pro se applications for a subpoena. We note that we review a court's ruling on a pro se application for a subpoena under the abuse of discretion standard. See Practice Book

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