Connecticut Breach Of Contract Legal Questions

My practice focuses on debt management, negotiation and bankruptcy.  I think we should see if bankruptcy is an option for you.  I would be interested in knowing more details of your  situation so that I can properly adivse you upon the situation.  Please feel free to contact us at 203.870.6700... Read More

It is possible there is a cancelation clause in the contract.  An attorney would need to review the contract to be able to best assist you. Please feel free to contact us if we can be of further assistance. Depending on  how the contract reads, there may be options available to you.... Read More

I assume that you contracted with the company, not its individual owners, and that the company is a separate legal entity, such as a coproration or llc.  As a general rule, the owners of an entity, such as shreholders of a corporation, are not personally liable for the tntity's obligations, and separate entities are not responsible for each other's obligations even if they have the same owners.  In rare instances you may be able to "pierce the veil" of an entity to hold its owners responsbible for the entitiy's obligations, or hold a successor entity responsible for its predecessor's obligations, but not often.  The rules for doing so are too complex and voluminous to go into here, but you would certainly need to show that there was some impropriety in the way that the parties (either owner and entity or predecessor and successor) conducted business with you which warrants making an exception to the normal rules.... Read More

You shold bring the contract to a an attorney who can review it and see if there are any ways that the contract does not hold up.  If this was a contract for home improvement, then the Home Improvement Act applies and this is a notoriously difficult law for contractors to comply with. My office handles a lot of Home Improvement Act litigation and would be happy to speak further on this.  Please feel free to contact us if we can be of further service. ... Read More

You should hire an attorney to sue them in Superior Court for breach of contract and unjust enrichment.  However, you should do an asset search first to make sure it is worth your time and money.  You can otherwise sue in small claims court, but the maximum amount you can sue for is $5,000.00.  I wish you the best of luck. This is not an uncommon problem.... Read More

Mr. Gantz, Your question is a bit of a run-on sentence and difficult to make sense of.   I believe I would need to review the contract in order to see if there is any opportunity for recovery.  This does not mean that I am not interested in assisting you, but I need more details.... Read More

I definitely think you can sue.  This is a common occurence and not remotely a new type of claim. I frequently hear of photographers and videographers getting drunk at weddings and failing to load the camera or having some other technical difficulties.  The problem is calculating the damages unless there is a liquidated damages clause in the contract.  If you would like further assistance with this matter by someone who understands how aggravating it is when your hired professional ruins or misses your speacial once in a lifetime day, please feel free to contact us.... Read More

You may have a case if you can substantiate that you are being treated differently and unfairly and not in keeping with the bylaws.  Like any other civil litigation, it would likely be cost prohibitive for you to defend or file a matter like this.  I would imagine an initial retainer amount being about $5,000.00.  Keep in mind that is just to start. We would bill hourly against it and expect it refilled at a certain point.  Feel free to contact us for more information... Read More

Regardless of who would get to keep the ring in the event of a break up, which can be a complicated question (particularly since you got the ring while residing in one state and broke up while residing in another), your ex unconditionally gave you the ring/waived any right to the ring AFTER the breakup.  Therefore, the ring is yours to do with as you wish.... Read More

What does the contract say?  Does it provide any right to cancel, or any refund if you cancel within a certain time period, or anything like that?  If not, you have no right to back out, and if you do are liable for the damages your breach caused the other party.  If this was another type of contract, for example the sale of a car, the seller's damages would be the amount you agreed to pay minus the amount they could sell the car for to another buyer.  Thus, if you had agreed to buy the car for $500, and after you cancelled they sold the car for $400, you would owe damages of $100.  Here, if the school  had reached the limit of how many students it could enroll, and was able to enroll another student to replace the cancellor, the damages might be zero - the school would make as much money anyway.  If, however, there is virtually no limit to the amount of people the school can enroll, so that any student they enroll would not be replacing the cancelling student, you would be responsible for the full amount of the contract.... Read More

You can sue your brother for the money, but, unless you have an arbitration agreement with him that you haven't mentioned, you have no basis to go to arbitration.  You can't force someone to arbitrate unless they agree to do so. Your case has two possible issues I can see, but they are not insoluble.  First, since your agreement was that he was to repay you when he got a settlement, and he never got one, he can argue that he has no obligation to repay you yet.  Normally, where the time for performance of a contract is contingent on some outside event which never occurs, the law will imply a reasonable time period for performance.  7 years is long enough to wait, so I think you'll be ok here.  Another issue is the statute of limiations.  Lets assume the Court says that 2 years was a reasonable time, and he breached by not paying you 5 years ago.  That might be beyond the statute of limitations (the contract statute of limitations in NY is 6 years, but I'm not sure what it is in  Connecticut.)  With no definite time set for repayment, however, this probably will not be an issue.  Of course, I have only heard your side of the story.  Your brother will likely take issue with what you're claiming.   For example, he may claim that you didn't loan him the money, but just paid him back for something, or invested with him in a business venture which didn't succeed.  With  no documentation, it may come down to your word against his.  ... Read More

A conversation can create a contract, or can modify a contract, but I don't think that happened here.  Had your client accepted your offer to return the full deposit in consideration of her agreement to continue to utilize your services going forward, you might have created an enforceable modification of your contract.  However, unless there's something  you didn't mention, she never agreed to continue to use you, so she never accepted your offer.... Read More

You can say it, but depending on the circumstances, you may be committing a crime by doing so.  In most cases, that sort of hyperbole is not a criminal matter, but in particular cases where the circumstances could lead the threatened party to believe and be frightened by the threat, it could violate criminal statutes.... Read More

A person who contracts can not just "pull out", but can only cancel the contract for reasons, or during the time period, allowed under the contract.  Assuming that your contract did not give the company the right to cancel it in the way they did, you can sue for breach of contract.  One problem I can see, however, is that you signed the contract with a "company".  That means that it is the "company" (assuming it is a corporation, llc, or other legal entity) that it liable on the contract, not the individual owners of the "company".  If the "company" doesn't have any assets to pay you damages, you probably will not be able to collect from the individual owners (with some rare exceptions).... Read More