{"id":11536,"date":"2025-06-08T17:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11536"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T16:53:04","slug":"settlement-agreement-barred-contingent-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11536","title":{"rendered":"Settlement Agreement Barred Contingent Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An agreement among the children of the decedent, entered into during their father&#8217;s lifetime, under which they released &#8220;all claims&#8221; against each other &#8220;whatsoever, at law or in equity, known or unknown, asserted or unasserted, contingent or accrued, [and] discovered or undiscovered,&#8221; barred one of the children from bringing a claim against other children following the death of their father based on a writing alleged to have been signed by the father. <em>Yoffee Estate<\/em>, 3 Fid.Rep.4th 41 (Montgomery O.C. 2025) (see &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?page_id=11894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Integration Clause of Settlement Agreement Bars Evidence of Party&#8217;s State of Mind<\/a>&#8221; for the Pa. R.A.P. 1925 opinion), <em>aff&#8217;d<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S33013-25m.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">690 EDA 2025<\/a> (Pa. Super. 11\/21\/2025) (non-precedential).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agreement among the children of the decedent, entered into during their father&#8217;s lifetime, under which they released &#8220;all claims&#8221; against each other &#8220;whatsoever, at law or in equity, known or unknown, asserted or unasserted, contingent or accrued, [and] discovered &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=11536\">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":[849,592],"class_list":["post-11536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-contingent-claims","tag-family-settlement-agreement","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536","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=11536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11991,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536\/revisions\/11991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}