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Foti, Hennessy and Zarella, Js. Argued April 28--officially released August 22, 2000 Counsel

Popcorn Redmon, pro se, the appellee (defendant). Kathleen A. Hogan, for the appellee (plaintiff).
Opinion

PER CURIAM. The defendant, Popcorn Redmon, appeals from postjudgment orders effectuating portions of a dissolution of marriage judgment relating to the disposition of the former marital home owned by Redmon and the plaintiff, Donald Fiddelman. The plaintiff contends that intervening events have rendered the appeal moot. We agree and dismiss the appeal. The parties were divorced in 1991 and the dissolution judgment provided that the parties' jointly owned home was to be sold, and that the defendant was to be paid $250,000 from the proceeds.1 Claiming that the defendant's refusal to cooperate had hindered a sale, the plaintiff filed a motion in 1998 seeking, among other things,

that the ownership of the home be transferred solely to him, but that the requirements of the original judgment regarding payment to the defendant continue. The plaintiff also sought orders concerning the removal of the defendant's personal property, which was still in the home. The trial court ordered that ownership of the home be vested solely in the plaintiff and that the defendant still receive the money to which she was originally entitled, and entered orders concerning the disposition of the defendant's personal property. The defendant now appeals from those orders. The plaintiff contends that intervening events have rendered the appeal moot. He claims that on June 18, 1999, new orders entered as to the removal of the defendant's personal property, which have superseded those challenged in this appeal, and that the new orders have been carried out by the defendant. In addition, the marital home has been sold. ``Since mootness implicates subject matter jurisdiction; Sadlowski v. Manchester, 206 Conn. 579, 583, 538 A.2d 1052 (1988); it can be raised at any stage of the proceedings. See Sobocinski v. Freedom of Information Commission, 213 Conn. 126, 134

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