Rule 60.02.Relief by motion on grounds of mistake, newly discovered evidence, fraud, etc.

CR 60.02 is Kentucky's safety valve for final judgments that turn out to be wrong for reasons the normal appeal process cannot reach. It lists six grounds a court may act on: (a) mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect; (b) newly discovered evidence that due diligence could not have turned up in time for a new-trial motion under CR 59.02; (c) perjury or falsified evidence; (d) fraud affecting the proceedings other than perjury or falsified evidence; (e) a judgment that is void, has been satisfied, released, or discharged, rests on an earlier judgment that has since been reversed or vacated, or should no longer apply going forward on equitable grounds; and (f) any other reason of an extraordinary nature justifying relief.

Timing works differently depending on the ground. Every motion under this rule has to be made within a reasonable time. For the first three grounds, mistake, newly discovered evidence, and perjury or falsified evidence, there is an added hard cap: the motion cannot come more than one year after the judgment, order, or proceeding was entered or taken. The fraud, void-judgment, and extraordinary-reason grounds carry no one-year cap, only the reasonable-time requirement.

Filing a CR 60.02 motion does not pause anything on its own. The rule states that the motion does not affect the finality of the judgment or suspend its operation, so the judgment stays in force, and enforceable, while the motion is pending unless the court orders otherwise.