75-1-106 - Effect of fraud and evasion. - Utah Statutes

75-1-106. Effect of fraud and evasion.
Whenever fraud has been perpetrated in connection with any proceeding or in anystatement filed under this code or if fraud is used to avoid or circumvent the provisions orpurposes of this code, any person injured thereby may obtain appropriate relief against theperpetrator of the fraud or restitution from any person (other than a bona fide purchaser)benefitting from the fraud, whether innocent or not. Any proceeding must be commenced withinthree years after the discovery of the fraud, but no proceeding may be brought against one not aperpetrator of the fraud later than five years after the time of commission of the fraud. Thissection has no bearing on remedies relating to fraud practiced on a decedent during his lifetimewhich affects the succession of his estate.

Enacted by Chapter 150, 1975 General Session