Promissory Estoppel
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Appeals court rules man cannot use ex-wife’s 16-year-old email to avoid $233,000 in child support
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Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last week that a man could not rely on his ex-wife’s onetime statement that “you don’t need to pay me child support” to get out of paying $233,000 over the subsequent 16 years. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals evaluated for the first time whether James Gallo could invoke…