Haberman's Estate

Citations

• 239 Pa. 10
• 86 A. 641
• 1913 Pa. LEXIS 514

Syllabus

<p>. Husband and wife — Ante-nuptial agreement — Inadequacy of provision — Fraudulent concealment — Presumption—Evidence.</p> <p>An ante-nuptial agreement entered into by a man possessed of a seventeen thousand dollar estate with a woman having an estate of .thirty-eight hundred dollars and providing that the woman, if the. survivor, should have a life estate in two and one-quarter acres of ground with the house thereon, while the man, if the survivor, was to have her whole estate less $130.00, will not be sustained where the evidence fails to show full disclosure to the woman of the value of the man’s estate and it appears that the provisions for the wife were inadequate for her maintenance, that the agreement was made at the suggestion of the husband’s nephew, that it was not fully explained to the wife who had an inadequate knowledge of English, that it was not understood by her, and that she did not have the advice of any disinterested person in regard to it.</p>