Working as a contractor is a difficult, time-intensive job. Not only do you have to focus on completing a project in the time you bid, but you need to make sure the customer is on the same page.
When there’s a miscommunication between a contractor and their client, it can get ugly. Disputes can slow down projects and damage a contractor’s reputation.
There are many types of businesses. Some are family traditions passed from one generation to the next. Others are entrepreneurial: built from the ground up, and then it’s time to move on to the next project. When an owner is ready to enter the next phase of life, be it for business or personal reasons, there are important factors to consider if you want to sell the business to a new buyer.
You and your business partner work together on a wide range of matters in connection to your company. It is natural that you two might not be in total agreement about all aspects of your business. Sometimes, disagreements between business partners are relatively minor and are able to be resolved without much trouble. Other times though, they can grow into full-blown disputes.
Partnership agreements are a valuable tool for any business. Partnership agreements, like any contract, give the parties involved promises that can be relied upon. Agreements also force the partners to think through important issues at the beginning of the company's life.
Here is a list of common provisions in partnership agreements.
It can be very difficult to prevail when challenging a will, because the court begins with the presumption that the will expresses the deceased's wishes. The will "speaks" for the deceased, and a strong legal argument is needed to get the court to go against what the will says.
In some situations, however, it is possible to challenge a will and win. In this post, we will look at three reasons to dispute the legitimacy of a will.
As consumer demand for cleaner energy continues to grow, the installation of solar panels for residential and commercial buildings has become more common.
Solar-energy systems are being installed on the roofs of single-family homes and businesses, and utilities are building large solar facilities, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. If you're curious about solar, here are a few facts to get you started.
You've heard why mediation can be a good alternative to filing a lawsuit. The two big reasons are time and money; mediation can be less time-consuming and less expensive that going to court.
But mediation is not a one-size-fits-all solution for resolving disputes. In this post we look at situations when mediation is a smart alternative, and when it isn't.
Yes, there are director actions you can limit right in your Texas formation certificate for your corporation. However, there are also actions that you simply cannot exculpate.
As reported by Baylor University School of Law, Texas' Business Organizations Code holds that you can limit or even exclude liability expressly for a for pecuniary damages to the corporation or its shareholders that resulted from the director's action or lack of action as a director. However, all rights to exculpation are not absolute. As per statute, there are some exceptions, which point towards not eliminating such liability if the director's intentions may not have been as pure as they should have been.
You likely feel a good level of comfort from knowing that, as a contractor in Austin, your work is secured contractually. This puts you in control of your company's destiny, ensuring that as long as your team is able to meet its obligations, you partner cannot simply back out of your agreement (at least without facing any penalties). Many contractors and companies that we here at Wright & Greenhill PC have worked with in the past have shared this same assumption. However, the law does allow certain parties (government entities in particular) a fair amount of leeway when it comes to getting out of contracts.
Terminating a contract "for convenience" basically allows a contracted partner to walk away from a deal without cause. According to Federal Acquisition Regulation 52.249-2 (as shared by the Legal Information Institute of the Cornell University Law School), a government entity can terminate a contract with you if it believes that doing so is in its best interest. If you are contracted with a government partner and it exercises this right, you are only then entitled to collect whatever you are owed for the work done up to that point, as well as whatever costs are associated with ending your involvement with the project in question. Recovering damages for breach of contract is only possible if you are able to show that the government operated in bad faith when executing your original agreement.
Promises between businesses typically are expressed in the specific terms of written contracts. When a contract's terms are not followed, it is called a breach of contract.
In this post, we will look at how parties can be penalized when they breach a contract.
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