High net worth individual—Appellate win

Secured a victory for a high net worth individual as plaintiff/appellant in a second appeal concerning an underlying arbitration decision involving a prenuptial agreement. Following an adverse decision in the trial court denying her motion to open the judgment in her marital dissolution action on the basis of fraud, we filed our first appeal in 2020 and, in 2021, the appellate court reversed the trial court’s decision and remanded the matter for a probable cause hearing regarding the fraud. The trial court then denied our client’s motion to open the marital dissolution judgment after finding no probable cause that the underlying martial dissolution action was procured through fraud. We appealed the trial court’s probable cause decision and, for the second time, the appellate court ruled in our favor. Specifically, the appellate court determined that we presented evidence that satisfied the probable cause standard that the underlying marital dissolution action was based on fraud and, as a result, remanded the case with the direction to open the judgment for the limited purpose of allowing further discovery in conjunction with our client’s claim of fraud.