Cengage Advantage Books: Law for Business 18th Edition by John Ashcroft ,Janet Ashcroft

Exercise 4

When Macarita Sanchez died, she owned some real estate. She had five children, who orally agreed to divide the property. The two youngest children, Evilia and Cinesio, were minors at the time. An older brother of Sanchez's, Salome Duran, took possession of the part assigned to them and paid the taxes on it until his death sixty years later. He left a will giving everything to Grace Rodriguez. Evilia and Cinesio claimed an interest in his estate, saying the agreement was voidable as to them, and that because they had never ratified it they could now disaffirm it. Could they?