Legal Opinion
Joyce O. Hodge v. Stedmann Hodge
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 20, 1980No. 80-1163PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
2Per curiam
This is an appeal from the district court’s denial of Stedmann Hodge’s motion to amend an eight-year-old divorce decree. Specifically, he seeks to avoid the obligation created in the decree to set up a trust of certain property. The motion to amend was based on lack of subject matter jurisdiction over the property and on the contention that the agreement embodied in the decree was premised on a mistake of fact. The district court denied the motion because the issue of subject matter jurisdiction was res judicata and because the facts alleged in the motion were not…
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