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Can a business put a specific cancel-by date into a contract?
I attended a gym in Michigan and canceled my membership on 8/28/19. I paid month to month and was under no long term contract. Even though I moved and haven't visited the gym since 8/17/19, I'm being ...
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Can a company handle paying taxes and other bureaucracy work for a freelancer
Pardon my terminology. I'm very much not a lawyer, but I used to watch Ally McBeal as a kid, so I think I got the hang of this.
This is actually a subset of a vastly larger problem, so the ...
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"This provision survives the termination of this Agreement."
In a business contract, does the following statement :
"This provision survives the termination of this Agreement."
Means that the provision survives for a unlimited amount of time? Is there a ...
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Can other party sneak in new contract terms via termination notice?
My friend's business applied for a credit card processor company's service. When signing up for this service the only document they asked her to sign was Application Form. Also, their sales person ...
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How to gather Compelling Evidence to prove that business is fraudulent?
My friend's small business agreed to a one-month risk-free trial service from one Credit Card Processor company. However, she did not like the service, because it did not live up to verbal promises ...
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Is a B2B blacklist legal
We have a business client who is a non-payer and we've had enough.
Is it legal to share details of this non-paying business to other businesses like mine?
It wasn't mentioned anywhere in the ...
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When is misrepresentation and concealment allowed in negotiating contracts?
Suppose I, or a company I own, want to purchase a domain name from an existing owner. Am I allowed to blatantly lie about the interests I represent and why I want the domain?
Can I, for example, buy ...
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Cheapest country to form a business within the European Union [closed]
I am a Greek (freelancing) software developer interested in forming a company to be able to legally invoice my clients. Crazy taxes in Greece prohibit myself from running a company in my own country (...
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What can I do if I signed an excessively restrictive contract?
Situation
I was offered a "small work opportunity" to provide consulting for a company operated by someone I met locally.
They told me to sign some agreements, which I did.
The problem is ...
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I am working with a colleague to create a game. We agreed to split profits 50/50. Would creating a contract promising 50% be legal?
The game will be owned under an LLC I created to protect ourselves from copy right. The reason I own the LLC is because I did the entire website and I plan to do more content without him as well. My ...
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Is "not available for resale" a legally enforceable statement?
I've seen this label on coke cans at one point, and I was wondering: is this legally enforceable?
If it's not, is it possible for a retailer in any way to disallow the resale of an item purchased?
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Assignment of Inventions in Employment Contract for Software Development
I have a contract that basically says this in the Assignment section:
To the fullest extent under applicable law, the
Company shall own all right, title and interest in and to all
Inventions (...
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No written contract. Do I have to pay undisclosed early termination fee?
A credit card payment processing company agent approached my business and offered to try out their service for free for a month as a trial.
However, I decided not to use it after this one month trial,...
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Are non-disclosure contracts in effect after company closes down?
I signed an employment contract with my employer (in Canada) that included a non-disclosure agreement (I work in R&D). The agreement essentially stated that the information gained while I was ...
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Client wants me to sign a contract after 1 year of working together, cites US tax laws as the reason
I'm a software developer freelancer, I have a client I have been working with for a while now (a year on the last projects, but many years before as employer-employee) which recently cited tax-law ...
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