Section 25-32.Mandatory Disclosure and Production

This is Connecticut’s automatic financial discovery. In an action for dissolution, legal separation, annulment or support, or on a postjudgment motion to modify alimony or support, one party’s request obliges the other to exchange the listed documents within sixty days — no motion, no interrogatories, unless the court orders otherwise for good cause shown.

What must be exchanged: all federal and state income tax returns filed within the last three years, personal and for any partnership or closely held corporation in which a party is a partner or shareholder; W-2, 1099 and K-1 forms within the last three years, including for the past year if that year’s return has not been prepared; pay stubs or other evidence of income for the current year and the last pay stub from the past year; statements for all accounts with any financial institution, including banks, brokers and financial managers, for the past 24 months; the most recent statement for any Keogh, IRA, profit sharing plan, deferred compensation plan, pension plan or retirement account; the most recent statement for any life insurance on either party; an employer’s summary of the party’s medical insurance policy, coverage, cost, spousal benefits and COBRA costs following dissolution; and any written appraisal of an asset owned by either party.

The duty continues while the action is pending if a party appears, so a document that comes into existence later must still be produced. And none of this displaces ordinary discovery — the section expressly does not preclude it.