Are Oral Agreements Enforceable? What You Need to Know

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first and foremost, a written agreement is always better than an or oral agreement. Always, always, always. So, if you can get a written agreement.

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Now, if you don't have a written agreement and you have an oral agreement instead, try to make sure you've got text messages, emails, other writings

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around the general terms of what the agreement actually is because those are the things that are going to be used to help interpret what the oral agreement

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was, if it changed over time, how it changed, when it changed, and what the requirements were of each side. The biggest problem I see from [music]

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having dealt with many of these breach of oral agreement cases is each side completely disagrees about what the

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actual agreement was and each side remembers the details of what happened and who was supposed to do what by

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[music] when very differently. So it creates a lot of chaos because neither side agrees on what the actual agreement was. and it makes it very difficult for

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any judge, jury or arbitrator to be able to decide what the ultimate terms of the agreement were. So the best type of evidence you can have in these kinds of

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cases and situations is the written stuff. That is the text [music] messages, the emails, the letters,

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anything that you've got in writing that can document things like the progress, the general terms of what's going on will help you in [music] a subsequent

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lawsuit or a subsequent dispute. So do the best you can to make sure all of that is documented. So course in conduct when it comes to the breach of an oral

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agreement is very important and can [music] be very helpful. So if you have a pattern in practice as to how things were handled in the past, then try to

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make sure that you gather that information and evidence and give it to your lawyer to help them help you with your case.