Question: After a wild first year in college with less than stellar academic results, Sidney made a deal with her grandmother to keep an 1 1
After a wild first year in college with less than stellar academic results, Sidney made a deal with her grandmother to keep an pm curfew and refrain from consuming alcohol and other intoxicating substances for the next academic year. In exchange, Sidney would receive a new car, worth $ Sidney was for the entire academic year covered by the agreement. Unfortunately, Sidneys grandmother passed away after Sidney successfully completed the agreement finishing the year with notably better grades but before the car could be purchased. The grandmothers estate does not want to make good on the agreement, and to get Sidney to go away tells Sidney that she would not be successful in a lawsuit to enforce this agreement arguing that because what she agreed to do was good for her, the agreement lacked consideration. Is the estate correct?
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Yes, regardless of Sidneys academic results.
Yes, there must truly be a detriment to one entering a contract, and a court will inquire to make sure that is the case.
Yes, but only because Sidneys grades improved.
No but because the agreement also mentions other intoxicating substances, the agreement is void for illegality.
No there was consideration: Sidney had a legal right she abandoned for the academic year because of her grandmothers promise to give her a new car.
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