Carl Smith v. Lisa Doe
Mississippi Supreme Court
1Dissent
KING, JUSTICE, DISSENTING:
¶ 30. This Court has defined unconscionability to mean "an absence of meaningful choice on the part of one of the parties, together with contract terms [that] are unreasonably favorable to the other party." Caplin Enters., Inc. v. Arrington , 145 So.3d 608 , 614 (Miss. 2014). Today's majority holds that a property-settlement agreement with terms almost solely favoring the wife and child was not unconscionable. With this, I cannot agree. Because the property-settlement agreement in this case was so drastically in Lisa Doe's and the child's favor, I believe that it was…
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