How to handle null/empty values in JsonConvert.DeserializeObject

You can supply settings to JsonConvert.DeserializeObject to tell it how to handle null values, in this case, and much more:

var settings = new JsonSerializerSettings
                    {
                        NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore,
                        MissingMemberHandling = MissingMemberHandling.Ignore
                    };
var jsonModel = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Customer>(jsonString, settings);