Bistricer v. Bistricer

How courts have described this case

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• holding case was settled at settlement conference where parties agreed on essential terms, notwithstanding plaintiff's numerous objections to the written agreement
• holding case was settled at settlement conference where parties agreed on essential terms, notwithstanding plaintiff's numerous objections to the written agreement
• giving effect to an oral agreement reached during a settlement conference despite the parties’ inability to later agree on a fleshed-out writing
• stating that a settlement “should not be enforced ‘where there appears to have been an absence of mutuality of accord between the parties or their attorneys in some substantial particulars, or the stipulated agreement is incomplete in some of its material and essential terms”
• finding gaps and disagreements concerning enactment of agreement “d[id] not abort the settlement”
• “So long as the basic essentials are sufficiently definite, any gaps left by the parties should not frustrate their intention to be bound.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).