12-28-2003, 09:41 AM
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Orgasms N Such!
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Originally posted by Brujah
Excerpted from an attorney:
Popular legal misconception.
Henry VI became King of England at the age of nine months.
Britney Spears was 17 years old and entered into a multi-million dollar contract.
Minors certainly can and do enter into binding contracts. If you know a minor with a job, then you know a minor with a binding contract.
Minors can hold adults to contracts.
As a general proposition, contracts with minors are neither null nor void. They are, however, voidable - but ONLY BY THE MINOR. For example, a kid can paint your fence, get bored, and walk away. You don't have to pay him, but you can't force him to come back and finish the job.
If you (an adult) contract with a minor, then you can be held accountable for that contract in every detail. On the other hand, with certain exceptions, the minor can breach and void the contract, and you can't enforce it against the minor.
If the minor reaches the age of majority during the term of the contract, and the contract is still being performed, then the minor will be held to have ratified the contract upon attaining the age of majority, and it will be enforceable against him/her. This is inclusive of marriages among minors.
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Yes, but they can ONLY enter legal contracts where the subject material is legal for them to do so, and in a court of law most contracts made with minors hold NO water, so it leaves the ADULTS on the other end holding the bag. Yep, sounds like a contract I'm gonna rush to be involved in. |
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