East End Bucktown Civic Ass'n v. Jefferson Parish Board of Zoning Adjustments

How courts have described this case

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• abandoning diligence requirement for motions to open dissolution judgments secured by fraud
• action to open judgment of dissolution of marriage due to alleged fraudulent concealment of value of marital property
• “private settlement of the financial affairs of estranged marital partners is a goal that courts should support rather than undermine” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• where alleged fraud consisted of defendant's failure to disclose value of asset that defendant was obligated to disclose pursuant to rules of practice
• where alleged fraud consisted of defendant’s failure to disclose value of asset that defendant was obligated to disclose pursuant to rules of practice
• “[c]ourts simply should not countenance either party to such a unique human relationship dealing with each other at arms’ length”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).