Question: Need help Coby and Maya are a married couple and immigrate to Canada in 2005. Coby is a doctor and speaks English. Maya speaks little

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Coby and Maya are a married couple and immigrate to Canada in 2005. Coby is a doctor and speaks English. Maya speaks little English and is a homemaker. Maya has difficulty adjusting to life in Canada and becomes depressed. In an effort to help, Coby prescribes Maya ever-increasing dosages of an anti-depressant. Eventually the couple's marriage ends, and they separate. Maya remains on the medication Coby prescribed. The couple enters into a separation agreement (a contract) drafted by a lawyer hired by Coby whereby he pays her support, but the payments barely cover rent and living expenses. During divorce proceedings, Maya claims she was forced into the separation agreement and that she was heavily sedated. She argues the contract should be void. What is the legal basis (using facts from above) of Maya's claim that the contract is void? What must Coby prove for the contract to be enforceable? Should Coby have done anything different when the separation agreement was prepared. A

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