Two parties have the right to contract without a lawyer. To some extent, it is extortion. However, it is usually a small price to pay instead of having your reputation drug through the mud. I routinely include such clauses in settlement agreements that I write for corporate clients.
Last edited by DGUtley; 07-13-2018 at 06:27 PM.
Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect. -- Woody Hayes
I woudn't. Not because I have a high level of praise for attroneys, though some I do*, but there always exists the possibility that one of the parties will become dissatisfied with the agreement and hire an attorney that will blow holes through that agreement.
_____________
*The attorney will remain nameless. Several years ago while in Judge,s chambers doing my thing during the immigration attorney bond hearings the subject came up of a recent incident in a neighboring town where a person had drove his car in the park intentionally ran over a young lady, then backed up and ran over her again. One of the Attorney's present said the court had asked him to defend the person since he was without funds. The Attorney said he refused because he could not in good conscience stand up in court and argue that the person did not know what he was doing at the time.
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
— Atlas Shrugged (Part 3, Chapter 1, Page 731)
"The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master."
— The Fountainhead (Part 4, Chapter 14, Page 637)