Erhardt v. Erhardt’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “Appellee argues that this final sentence empowers a trial court to entertain petitions for relief seeking either (1) `[relief] from a judgment, decree, order or proceeding' or (2) `to set aside a judgment or decree for fraud upon the court.' In other words appellee views the two portions of the final sentence disjunctively and finds two separate grounds for relief, one of which requires a showing of fraud and one of which does not. [9] We reject this reasoning. We read the final sentence to provide only one basis for relief and that requires a showing of fraud upon the court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 432 So. 2d 704 - Brown v. Brown

2. “a final judgment, decree, order or proceeding”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 421 So. 2d 698 - Ford Motor Credit Company v. Simmons