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The Difficulty of Enforcing an Unwritten Contract

By Charles Sartain on May 14, 2019
Posted in Contract Disputes, Title Issues

Imagine how much better off you would be if the contract you want to enforce had been reduced to writing. See West v. Quintanilla for what happens when it wasn’t.

The agreements …
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Asserting a Losing Title Claim Isn’t (Always) Tortious

By Charles Sartain on November 7, 2018
Posted in Land Titles, Title Issues
Co-author Ethan Wood

In Texas losing a title dispute doesn’t mean you committed myriad heinous torts by asserting your rights in the first place. The test: Were you reasonable in bringing your colorable but not correct claim? So says Dorfman v. J P Morgan Chase Bank, NA.…
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I have been helping clients of all types resolve their commercial disputes for most of my 35 years as a lawyer. Of the many industries in which I have worked, the energy business is the most fascinating…More

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