Reville v. Reville

Summary

The court reversed the denial of the plaintiff’s motion to open a dissolution judgment based on alleged fraudulent nondisclosure of an accrued but unvested pension. It held that the pension’s unsettled classification as distributable property did not eliminate the defendant’s duty to disclose it, and that evidence of its value was relevant to disclosure, reliance, detriment, and the probable effect on the dissolution outcome. The court rejected the plaintiff’s request to shift the burden of disproving fraud because the trial court correctly applied the established burden of proof. There were no separate opinions.