Posted by hdhougen on February 22, 2006 at 12:54:15:
Thank for that information, that helps a lot!
legal contracts - Posted by hdhougen
Posted by hdhougen on February 22, 2006 at 09:04:05:
I was wondering if anybody could tell me if it is illegal to buy one of those legal forms off the internet and add clauses to it. Thanks for your time!
What’s YOUR agreement? - Posted by John Merchant
Posted by John Merchant on February 22, 2006 at 11:20:01:
Depends on what your legal agreement is with the form seller…if you agreed NOT to revise or resell, then you’d be breaking that agreement if you did either.
Realizing that it’s extremely popular for the eager REI to try to avoid lawyers at all cost, and to debunk their value and expertise, I’m going to advise you to form a relationship with a good lawyer and talk to him/her about specialized forms you need.
Generally those forms that a lawyer will do for a client, and for which he’s paid, are then the possessions and property of the client, and his to use, alter, burn, whatever he chooses.
In many cases of course, once the lawyer has done a form for a client in a particular deal, that client then re-uses the same form, with different names, properties, etc. for many other deals without going back for specific forms for each and every deal.
Once you’ve got your cookie cutter, it can be used to cut lots of cookies.