Tuttle v. Tuttle

It is the general rule that a stranger to a decree of divorce has no standing on which to base a motion to set aside or annul the decree. 99 A. L. R. 1310. But the petition in the present case is in no respect an attack on the judgment rendered. It does not seek the abolition of rights already adjudicated but merely asks that those rights be made effective by relation from the date of their determination.

It is true “that divorce proceedings abate upon the death of either of the parties.” Leclerc v. Leclerc, 85 N. H. 121, 122. But this rule is not literally a hard and fast one. “There may,…