CHAIT v. CHAIT


256 A.D.2d 121 (1998)

681 N.Y.S.2d 269

MICHAEL CHAIT, Respondent, v. JEAN CHAIT, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided December 10, 1998.


The Special Referee's finding of duress has support in the record (see, Freedman v Freedman, 211 A.D.2d 580), including, in particular, the evidence that defendant repeatedly threatened to take the parties' child away from plaintiff if he did not sign the extension, a threat she had the means to carry out by resort to her family's considerable wealth. That plaintiff consulted with two attorneys on the day he signed the agreement...

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