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Vogel v. Vogel

Citations

  • 178 Conn. 358
  • 422 A.2d 271
  • 1979 Conn. LEXIS 860

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • rejecting plaintiff’s challenge to nineteen year old mari- tal dissolution judgment as impermissible collateral attack
  • Supreme Court declined to consider claim of lack of jurisdiction made twenty years after initial judgment rendered
  • plaintiff’s attack, during 1978 contempt hearing, on subject matter jurisdiction of court to render 1959 judgment in same case, was impermissible collateral attack on 1959 judg- ment
  • ‘‘A court does not truly lack subject matter jurisdiction if it has competence to enter- tain the action before it. . . . Lesser irregularities do not make a final judgment void.’’ (Internal quotation marks omitted.)
  • plaintiff sought to attack nineteen year old marital dissolution judgment

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Judges: Cotter, Loiselle, Bogdanski, Longo, Peters

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