{"id":8247,"date":"2020-10-10T18:09:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T22:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8247"},"modified":"2021-11-09T11:06:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T16:06:02","slug":"settlement-agreement-enforced-against-pro-se-litigant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8247","title":{"rendered":"Settlement Agreement Enforced against Pro Se Litigant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A settlement agreement disposing of all objections to an account of the executors, negotiated during a settlement conference conducted by a master appointed by the Orphans&#8217; Court, will be enforced against a well -educated and intelligent <em>pro se<\/em> litigant who was an active and cooperative participant in the settlement conference despite her later claims that she did not understand the binding nature of the agreement she signed.     <em>Szafara Estate<\/em>, 10 Fid.Rep.3d 200 (Bucks O.C. 2020), <em>aff&#8217;d<\/em> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A04006-21m.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">1256 EDA 2020<\/a> (Pa. Super. 9\/8\/2021) (non-precedential), <em>petition for allowance of appeal<\/em>, 552 MAL 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A settlement agreement disposing of all objections to an account of the executors, negotiated during a settlement conference conducted by a master appointed by the Orphans&#8217; Court, will be enforced against a well -educated and intelligent pro se litigant who &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=8247\">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":[592],"class_list":["post-8247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-family-settlement-agreement","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247","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=8247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8884,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions\/8884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}