Nebraska Agreement for Accord and Satisfaction of an Undisputed Claim--Different Method of Payment

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An accord & Satisfaction is a method of discharging a contract, or settiling a cause of action arising either from a contract or a civil wrong.
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The accord is the agreement to discharge the obligation and the satisfaction is the legal "consideration" which binds the parties to the agreement.

Accord and satisfaction deals with a debtors offer of payment and a creditors acceptance. of a lesser amount than the creditor originally purported to be owed. It is a method of discharging a claim by settlement of the claim and performing the agreement.

The satisfaction is the execution or acceptance of this agreement, and once satisfaction occurs, the previous contract is extinguished. Accord and satisfaction is an affirmative defense to a breach of contract claim, requiring the asserting party to plead and prove the defense.

Under most state law, a valid accord and satisfaction requires four elements as a minimum, usually, (1) proper subject matter, (2) competent parties, (3) meeting of the minds of the parties and (4) adequate consideration.

Under most state law, a valid accord and satisfaction requires four elements as a minimum, usually, (1) proper subject matter, (2) competent parties, (3) meeting of the minds of the parties and (4) adequate consideration.

An accord is a contract in which a creditor agrees with the debtor to accept performance of something less than payment of the full amount of the debt in return for the creditor's agreement to discharge the debt. Since an accord is a contract, it requires offer, acceptance, and consideration. You just studied 7 terms!

An accord and satisfaction differs from a modification in that a modification immediately discharges a preexisting duty, whereas an accord and satisfaction does not discharge a preexisting duty until the agreed upon, alternate performance occurs.

A common way that accord and satisfaction is used is to satisfy a debt that a debtor cannot afford with a smaller payment. Sometimes a creditor will agree to accept a percentage of a debt in order to have the original contract fulfilled and the dispute handled.

Definition. An agreement (accord) between two contracting parties to accept alternate performance to discharge a preexisting duty between them and the subsequent performance (satisfaction) of that agreement.

554, 561 (2001), for the rule that three elements must exist for there to be an accord and satisfaction: (a) there must be a (good faith) dispute about the existence or extent of liability, (b) after the dispute arises, the parties must enter into an agreement in which one party must agree to pay more than that party

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Nebraska Agreement for Accord and Satisfaction of an Undisputed Claim--Different Method of Payment