Florida Contracts Legal Questions

You will need to spend some money on hiring a lawyer to review your documents and go from there. Whether you are able to get money back depends on how this "investment" occurred. A "silent" partner may be a problem for you if you have no shares and hopefully you have a prommisory note of some sort of other if it was a loan. ... Read More

So - you engage in criminal activity  - get incarcerated, and the remedy is to expect the marina to bear the expense of moving and storing your vessel for you? Not a good plan. You wull need to spend the money to hire an admirality lawyer ASAP to address this. It may be cheaper to offer to pay all of the past due expenses and see if they wll give you your vessel back. ... Read More

If you are asking in such a question you REALLY need to retain a business transactions lawyer before you even think about such a purchase. Thse are high risk high failure low return investments and you need to vet them properly and make sure you aree adequately proected beforeyou invest a thin dime.... Read More

You tell us - YOU negotiated the settlement and signed the agreement. YOU are supposed to know what you agreed to. Otherwise, you will need to retain a lawyer to review the agreement and go from there or simply avoid the issue until pass thedeadline to avoid the expense of a controversy. ... Read More

UNless there was a warranty - you are likely stuck if its an as is sale. That stated there is no rational reason to expect a 1998 vehicle is in any shape other than needing lots of repairs absent paying a premium for the vehicle and having documentation of the various repairs or maintenance as its over 20 years old. At 2k for repairs thats likely you cheapest option as lawsuits and lawyer fees will likely cost far more. ... Read More

With certain exceptions which do not seem to apply here, there is generally no need for a signature on a contract to be notarized under the law of every American jurisdiction of which I'm aware, but British law may be different, and (assuming that none of the contracts has a choice of law provision) it is possible that this question could be governed by British law.... Read More

You generally don't  - at least not without controversy or penalty. You should have addressed those considerations or issues when you signed the agreement. At this point you can either retain a lawyer at some expense to review the agreement and assiist in separating from the company or you will likely need to address this with the employer in regard to modifying the agreement or termnating it. ... Read More

Your question is complicated and may depend on who you're fighting with.  If the owner was trying to get you out, and your only basis for occupancy was a forged sublease, you would probably lose.  The only chance I can see is if you could show that the owner knew or should have known about the forged sublease and went along with it, thereby ratifying it.  This is a longshot.  However, if you ask the owner to approve the sublease now, he/she/it could do so and it would be as if he/she/it had signed it originally, with no forgery.  Your mother-in-law, the forger, can't claim any benefits from the forgery.  Even if you don't get the owner to ratify the sublease, your mother-in-law can't resist eviction by attacking her own forgery - the fake won't give you any rights against the owner, whose signature was forged, but it is valid as against your mother-in-law.... Read More