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Ideal_Rock
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Do any of you lawyers out there know the answer to this question?
Say two people make an arrangement between themselves. They draw up a contract with the terms and both sign and date it and each one has a witness sign and date it. The agreement is mutually agreeable, equal, and fair in the eyes of the witnesses as well as the contracting parties. Neither one of them consults a lawyer.
Do courts uphold this sort of contract? Or do you HAVE to have a lawyer to make a contract? Or is the job of the lawyer just to advise you in case you "miss" some finer point of law?
And is there any way of finding out the finer points of law for a certain kind of contract without having to drop, say, $2K to hire lawyer?
Say two people make an arrangement between themselves. They draw up a contract with the terms and both sign and date it and each one has a witness sign and date it. The agreement is mutually agreeable, equal, and fair in the eyes of the witnesses as well as the contracting parties. Neither one of them consults a lawyer.
Do courts uphold this sort of contract? Or do you HAVE to have a lawyer to make a contract? Or is the job of the lawyer just to advise you in case you "miss" some finer point of law?
And is there any way of finding out the finer points of law for a certain kind of contract without having to drop, say, $2K to hire lawyer?