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Criteria for Setting Aside a Stipulation of Settlement Explained

In finding plaintiff’s motion to vacate a stipulation of settlement was properly denied, the Second Department explained the operative principles:

“Stipulations of settlement are judicially favored, will not lightly be set aside, and are to be enforced with rigor and without a searching examination into their substance’ as long as they are clear, final and the product of mutual accord'” … . A stipulation of settlement may not be set aside except on a showing of fraud, collusion, mistake, or accident … . Yan Ping Liang v Wei Xuan Gao, 2014 NY Slip Op 04003, 2nd Dept 6-4-14

 

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