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Contracts govern promises between parties on topics ranging from the simple to the complex.
Both oral and written contracts affect our lives daily. You might imagine that if a person took the time to enter into a written contract to memorialize the terms of the contract, he or she would take the time to read that contract. However, many people do not read written contracts and later discover that the written terms are different, sometimes very different, from those upon which they agreed. Similarly, most contracts cannot be avoided simply because you failed to read the contract before you signed it. Instead, you might be dealing with a spouse, parent, child, company, partner, or that person's estate.