Home warranty plans have been picking up in popularity, mostly thanks to aggressive advertising campaigns that appeal to the homeowner's worry that something expensive will suddenly break and need a repair. In the ads, the home warranties seem like the perfect...
Contracts are designed to avoid problems, not create them. One careless agreement, however, can wrap your entire business in legal issues that you're far better off avoiding. What are the best ways to avoid a contract fiasco? Don't sign anything until you review these...
When you freelance in the creative arts for a living, contracts can save your finances and your reputation -- but many freelancers don't know how to begin drafting a good contract or understand exactly why they need one. Good contracts are actual designed to do one...
A number of Florida residents are very unhappy with their insurance company after filing claims for damage from Hurricane Irma several months ago. Not only are their homes going without repairs, the homeowners are being sued by their own insurance company for contract...
Most employees think of a contract as something that protects them from getting fired for no good reason. They don't think of it as something that also legally binds them to a job they might decide they hate. Unfortunately, some employers do include clauses in their...
There's been a lot of talk in the news lately about what it takes to make a contract legal. The Stormy Daniels affair, for example, revolves around a contract that was only signed by one party. Daniels claims that since the other party never signed, she isn't bound by...
If a contract clause can reasonably be interpreted in more than one way, that's an ambiguous clause -- and a potential problem for your business. For example, what happens if a contract reads "Employees will be reimbursed for their out-of-pocket expenses during their...
If you have a contract with someone, you expect them to fulfill it. If they don't, you have several different options. You can choose to let the other party out of the contract, renegotiate for a new contract that you can both live with or demand a legal solution. One...
If you call a document a "letter of intent," is it enforceable as a contract? Maybe. One thing is certain, however: Letters of intent open the doorway for some serious contract disputes. The argument over whether or not the parties involved actually have a legally...
There's a phrase or two that's commonly seen in contracts called a governing law provision or conflict of laws provision. Many people read over this part of the contracts that they sign without fully understanding its meaning. That could be a mistake that could haunt...
