Dunn v. Dunn

The only issue in this appeal involves the propriety of the trial court’s action in granting the plaintiff’s motion to open the judgment modifying the award of alimony made incident to the judgment dissolving the parties’ marriage.

No useful purpose could be served by our reciting here the labyrinthian procedural morass through which this case has meandered. Suffice it to say that the trial *382court was confronted with complex legal entanglements, the resolution of which required the court to exercise its power to act equitably. This power “is the keystone to the court’s ability to fashion relief…