{"id":11083,"date":"2024-12-08T10:05:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T15:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11083"},"modified":"2024-12-16T11:31:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T16:31:21","slug":"liquidated-damages-of-50-of-contract-price-is-unenforceable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11083","title":{"rendered":"Liquidated Damages of 50% of Contract Price is Unenforceable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a contract allegedly signed by the decedent for the purchase of real estate, a provision for &#8220;liquidated damages&#8221; of 50% of the contract price is unenforceable as a penalty, and a motion by the executor to dismiss an objection asserting a claim for liquidated damages was granted.  A motion to dismiss another objection, asserting a claim for unpaid rent, was granted in part because the decedent had not signed the lease and the apartment was occupied by the decedent&#8217;s son and not the decedent.  <em>Mulligan Estate (No. 1)<\/em>, 2 Fid.Rep.4th 252 (Montgomery O.C. 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[The lease claim was finally dismissed in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11086\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mulligan Estate (No. 2)<\/a><\/em>, 2 Fid.Rep.4th 259 (Montgomery O.C. 2023),\u00a0<em>app. pend.<\/em>\u00a01912 EDA 2024 (Pa. Super.).  An opinion on the imposition of counsel fees against the claimants can be found in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11107\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mulligan Estate (No. 3)<\/a><\/em>, 2 Fid.Rep.4th 280 (Montgomery O.C. 2024),\u00a0<em>app. pend.<\/em>\u00a01912 EDA 2024 (Pa. Super.).]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a contract allegedly signed by the decedent for the purchase of real estate, a provision for &#8220;liquidated damages&#8221; of 50% of the contract price is unenforceable as a penalty, and a motion by the executor to dismiss an objection &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11083\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[189,477,473],"class_list":["post-11083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-claims-of-creditors","tag-objections-to-account","tag-pa-o-c-rules","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11111,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions\/11111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}