diff --git a/src/Orchard/Mvc/ModelBinders/BooleanBinderProvider.cs b/src/Orchard/Mvc/ModelBinders/BooleanBinderProvider.cs
index 4de20c9a5..13905d3b8 100644
--- a/src/Orchard/Mvc/ModelBinders/BooleanBinderProvider.cs
+++ b/src/Orchard/Mvc/ModelBinders/BooleanBinderProvider.cs
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ namespace Orchard.Mvc.ModelBinders {
 
         public object BindModel(ControllerContext controllerContext, ModelBindingContext bindingContext) {
             var value = false;
+            if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(controllerContext.HttpContext.Request[bindingContext.ModelName])) return false;
             var requestBooleanValue = controllerContext.HttpContext.Request[bindingContext.ModelName].Split(',')[0]; //Html.CheckBox and Html.CheckBoxFor return "true,false" string
             if (!bool.TryParse(requestBooleanValue, out value)) {
                 bindingContext.ModelState.AddModelError(bindingContext.ModelName, new FormatException());