Ratony Estate

443 Pa. 454 (1971)

Ratony Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Argued January 20, 1971.

June 1, 1971.

Before BELL, C.J., JONES, EAGEN, O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, POMEROY and BARBIERI, JJ.

Franklin L. Gordon, with him Gordon and Ashton, for appellant.

William R. Keen, Jr., with him Milton Apfelbaum, for appellee.

OPINION BY MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BELL, June 1, 1971:

This appeal involves the validity of a postnuptial Separation Agreement.

Decedent, Alexander Ratony, Jr., and appellant, Julia Ratony, were married on June 15, 1940. On June 20, the Ratonys purchased property in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, as tenants by…