While the facts and circumstances in Hunt v. Hunt, supra, and the instant case are by no means identical, the principle, in my view, is the same. Notwithstanding the attendance by the client in the office of the solicitor who was acting for her as well as for her husband, she was not apprised of her statutory rights; and, notwithstanding the instructions she gave, an apprisal of those rights and her exercising her judgment in the knowledge of those rights are prerequisites, in my view, to the enforceability against her of an agreement in which she purported to relinquish those very rights.
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