Court Opinion

ID: 9548875
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:10:00.722756+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:19:33.005085
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*168Hill, J.
(concurring specially) — I concur in the narrow issue actually presented, i.e., the nunc pro tunc order vacating the divorce should not have been entered, and we affirm the order setting aside or vacating the said nunc pro tunc order.
I do not concur in any language from which it may be inferred that even if the property-settlement provisions of the divorce decree were a fraud on the appellant she is without a remedy. We have held that such fraud is extrinsic and can be reached, if at all, only by a direct attack. Anderson v. Anderson (1958), 52 Wn. (2d) 757, 328 P. (2d) 888.
As I view the record, the posture of the case, as a result of our opinion and judgment, is that the divorce decree itself has not been vacated and the appellant has a motion pending to vacate it. We have not determined her right to proceed against all or part of that decree.