Matter of Marriage of Vinson

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that McCarty had been applied to judgments on appeal but refusing retroactive application to final and unappealable judgments
• inherent power to relieve parties from judgments is within court’s discretion but does not arise in the absence of extraordinary circumstances such as fraud
• parties’ failure to anticipate subsequent legal change insufficient

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).