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Divorce Windfall Not Unconscionable

'Courts will not set aside an agreement on the ground of unconscionability simply because it might have been improvident,'" a panel recently held in <i>Etzion v. Etzion</i>, 2008-00759.

3 minute read July 29, 2009 at 08:36 AM
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Mark Faas
Divorce Windfall Not Unconscionable

When Deborah and Rafael Etzion negotiated a separation agreement in 2003 after 24 years of marriage, an appraiser valued a Brooklyn warehouse they owned at $6.5 million. Under the terms of the separation agreement, Ms.

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