Supreme Court of Connecticut, 1990

Billington v. Billington

Billington v. Billington
Supreme Court of Connecticut · Decided November 2, 1990
216 Conn. 827; 582 A.2d 205; 1990 Conn. LEXIS 404

Billington v. Billington

Opinion of the Court

The plaintiff’s petition for certification for appeal from the Appellate Court, 23 Conn. App. 45, is granted, limited to the following issues:

“1. To prevail on a motion to open a judgment based on fraud, must the movant in a marital case establish diligence in attempting to discover the fraud?
“2. Is there a difference in marital cases between a fraud on the court and a fraud on the adverse party?
“3. Was the Appellate Court correct in deciding that the trial court should not have opened the judgment?”

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