Contracts Issues in The Queen’s Gambit
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If you haven’t yet seen The Queen’s Gambit, I envy you. You have something to look forward to. It’s a wonderful series. Everything about it is wonderful. Also wonderful: thanks to CUNY Law Professor Chaumtoli Huq and Shehran Uddin (@SUddin_10), I can share two contracts issues that arise during the series without terribly significant spoilers.
First, and here there is a bit of a spoiler . . . the main character, Elizabeth (Beth) Harmon, is an orphan. She is adopted by a couple, but the husband soon disappears, and Beth develops a complicated relationship with her adopted mother. The mother dies while they are in Mexico for a chess tournament, and Beth calls her estranged, adopted father for help with funeral arrangements and changing her plane ticket. The father, who can’t deal with anything, offers a deal: “Get her up to Kentucky and bury her, and the house is yours. Just make the mortgage payments.” Beth performs; her father doesn’t. Some day, it is to be hoped, the people behind The Queen’s Gambit will make a spin-off about the legal proceedings relating to the house that is as accurate and riveting a depiction of litigation as the series is in depicting chess tournaments.
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