QUESTION
What makes a contract legally binding?
Asked on May 26th, 2021 on Breach of Contract - Colorado
More details to this question:
Someone is asking me to sign something that makes me promise to not contact them again. BUT, Theyre using this contract as a way to keep something of mine they took. So basically I have to sign this paper or I won’t get my stolen property back. Is that legal?
1 ANSWER
Contracts entered into under duress are not legally binding, but what you're describing is not duress. Either you don't have a legal right to the property you claim, in which case the other party is simply threatening to do something - keep the property - which they have a legal right to do, or you do have a legal right to the property, in which case there is no reason you have to sign the contract, since you can obtain the property by suing the other party for it (or going to the police).
Answered on May 27th, 2021 at 7:48 AM