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QUESTION OF FACT WHETHER QUITCLAIM DEED WAS UNCONSCIONABLE; DOCTRINES OF PROCEDURAL AND SUBSTANTIVE UNCONSCIONABILITY DISCUSSED.

The First Department, over a two-justice dissent, determined there were questions of fact about whether plaintiff’s signing of a quitclaim deed was procedurally and substantively unconscionable. Plaintiff, who believed he no longer owned the land, signed the deed in return for $5000. The property was worth $1,000,000:

No one procedural factor can be relied upon to support or discount a claim of procedural unconscionability. Such claims are most often fact sensitive and dependent upon the particular circumstances surrounding a transaction, which, at the very least, mandate the opportunity for an evidentiary hearing … . Certainly, the factual allegations … raise material issues of fact as to whether plaintiff was afforded a “meaningful choice” in his decision to execute the quitclaim deed and whether the terms of the agreement are “unreasonably favorable” to [defendants]. These issues cannot be resolved by summary judgment.

With respect to the element of substantive unconscionability, we also find that there are material issues of fact. In order to determine if the agreement is substantively unconscionable, there must be an “analysis of the substance of the bargain to determine whether the terms were unreasonably favorable to the party against whom unconscionability is urged” … . …[D]espite the fact that plaintiff believed he no longer owned the property, there is nothing in this record to indicate that he was ever divested of title by either an in rem proceeding or direct sale … . Green v 119 W. 138th St. LLC, 2016 NY Slip Op 05955, 1st Dept 9-8-16

 

REAL PROPERTY (QUESTION OF FACT WHETHER QUITCLAIM DEED WAS UNCONSCIONABLE; DOCTRINES OF PROCEDURAL AND SUBSTANTIVE UNCONSCIONABILITY DISCUSSED)/CONTRACT LAW (QUESTION OF FACT WHETHER QUITCLAIM DEED WAS UNCONSCIONABLE; DOCTRINES OF PROCEDURAL AND SUBSTANTIVE UNCONSCIONABILITY DISCUSSED)/QUITCLAIM DEED (QUESTION OF FACT WHETHER QUITCLAIM DEED WAS UNCONSCIONABLE; DOCTRINES OF PROCEDURAL AND SUBSTANTIVE UNCONSCIONABILITY DISCUSSED)/UNCONSCIONABILITY (QUESTION OF FACT WHETHER QUITCLAIM DEED WAS UNCONSCIONABLE; DOCTRINES OF PROCEDURAL AND SUBSTANTIVE UNCONSCIONABILITY DISCUSSED)

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