Are Contracts for selling pups useless? - Page 2

spook101, You must not know much about lawyers and the way they practice. You can find a lawyer who does FREE consultation.

yellowrose of Texas could find a lawyer who practice this... receive free advice and if the lawyer thinks that she has a case.. they'll take it and if you do not win the case, you don't pay.

In my opinion I think yellowrose of Texas has a case against this guy.. He simply violated the breach of agreement in the contract.

yellowrose of Texas, Go to your lawyers office and let him/her know about this... Don't believe what this idiot says.. He might be pulling your leg. Go get legal help.

You dont need a lawyer to sue in small claims court at all.

It costs nothing to go and stand before the judge and state your case. I think that you will win, and this guy is telling you it wont stand so that you will be discouraged and go away.

I think you should sue him. If anything, you will get a free test of your contract and you will have a better idea of how to revise it. I really think you will win though. I think that the DBA line he was feeding you was a load of bull, personally.

On the registered name: If you as the breeder mailed in the papers to the AKC then the name could not have been changed. In the future you should have the buyers write a check to the AKC at the time of purchase or include it in your purchase price.

 If you really want the pup back then pay them the extra $100 and buy the pup back. It would not be worth the hassle of a small claims case over $100. Sure there is the point of it but you won't get compensated for your time or headache. If it was a $10,000 matter then it would be worth hiring an attorney. A good attorney (??) would tell you the same. Better to spend the attorney fees on a clear concise contract as advised above.

Heres some good links for you Yellowrose:

 You will see here that small claims is for problems just like this and most people do not have a lawyer at all. It costs 10 bucks to file. I say go for it!

http://www.peopleslawyer.net/smallclaims/

 http://library.law.smu.edu/resguide/smclaims.htm

 Yellowrose

Has this person registered the dog yet? If not, I have an idea that might help you...

  badpuppy00 @ yahoo . com

Brittany, I may know a little bit more about , lawyers fees, business law, contracts and contract enforcement then you are willing to give me credit for. From your statements to YR it is obvious you know very little.

Small claims is the only viable way to go about this and the best that can happen is the individual may be told to return the dog for the price of the sale. Now the more interesting part will be trying to enforce the judgement, especially if this person does not live in the same state.