{"id":292,"date":"2015-09-13T10:49:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T14:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2016-12-11T01:05:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T06:05:42","slug":"how-to-make-sure-you-actually-settled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"Did You Actually Settle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the validity of a settlement is in\u00a0dispute,\u00a0one test is to check whether the settlement was made in court or in writing, and whether the court conducted an allocution.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A trial court\u2019s allocution confirms that actions are made knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily. <em>Strang v. Rathbone<\/em>, 108 A.D.3d 565, 566 (2d Dept. 2013). During an allocution, the court typically confirms whether a party understood and agreed with the terms of the settlement, willingly. <em>Furey v. Furey<\/em>, 230 A.D.2d 708 (2d Dept. 1996).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>If you have any legal questions or need help with a settlement,\u00a0please contact Attorney Scott Lanin at (212) 764-7250 x 201 or use the contact form in the right sidebar.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the validity of a settlement is in\u00a0dispute,\u00a0one test is to check whether the settlement was made in court or in writing, and whether the court conducted an allocution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ny-business-litigator-blog-ny-real-estate-litigator-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":461,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nybusinesslitigator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}