Bloomfield v. Bloomfield

On this appeal we are asked to determine the validity of a prenuptial agreement executed in 1969 by defendant Barbara Bloomfield. The majority concludes that the agreement is void because it waives defendant’s right to support, which a wife could not do under the version of General Obligations Law § 5-311 in effect in 1969, and suggests that, even if the agreement were not void, it is unconscionable as a matter of law. The majority further concludes that the Statute of Limitations was tolled during the parties’ marriage, so that defendant may seek to set aside the agreement notwithstanding…