{"id":659,"date":"2011-08-05T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=659"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:17:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:17:08","slug":"connecticut-supreme-court-refuses-to-enforce-unconscionable-post-nuptial-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2011\/08\/05\/connecticut-supreme-court-refuses-to-enforce-unconscionable-post-nuptial-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecticut Supreme Court refuses to enforce unconscionable post-nuptial agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jud.ct.gov\/external\/supapp\/Cases\/AROcr\/CR300\/300CR52.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Bedrick v. Bedrick, 17 A.3d 17 (Conn. 2011)<\/a>\u00a0that post-nuptial agreements may be enforceable but that they are subject to stricter standards than premartial agreements. Moreover, in this case, the court found the contract unconscionable at the time of trial and thus void and unenforceable. Such agreements must be examined to ensure that they are fair and equitable at the time of divorce and whether enforcement would &#8220;work an injustice.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/marital-property\/\" rel=\"tag\">Marital Property<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in\u00a0Bedrick v. Bedrick, 17 A.3d 17 (Conn. 2011)\u00a0that post-nuptial agreements may be enforceable but that they are subject to stricter standards than premartial agreements. Moreover, in this case, the court found the contract unconscionable at the time of trial and thus void and unenforceable. Such agreements must be examined to ensure that they are fair and equitable at the time of divorce and whether enforcement would &#8220;work an injustice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marital-property"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}