Legal Opinion
Mahon v. Moorman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 3, 1996PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Lewis Friedman, J.), entered October 18, 1995, inter alia, declaring the parties’ separation agreement to be valid and enforceable, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
In seeking to set aside the separation agreement on the ground of duress and overreaching, defendant has failed to demonstrate that plaintiff’s threats allegedly made during the period when the agreement was being negotiated deprived him of the ability to act in furtherance of his own interests (cf., Polito v Polito, 121 AD2d 614, Iv dismissed 68 NY2d 981). The evidence demonstrates that…
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