In one of the most costly and hard-fought custody battles in Connecticut family court history, Guilford cosmeceutical magnate Nicholas V. Perricone only started winning the moment he stopped fighting.

In a strongly worded opinion, New Haven Complex Litigation Docket Judge Lynda B. Munro recently declined to follow either the joint custody recommendation of the court-appointed psychiatrist or Munro’s own joint custody order of 11 months earlier. Instead invoking her judicial duty to rule in the best interests of the child – the couple’s 7-year-old daughter – Munro awarded the husband sole legal custody.

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