Keeping all of the different agreements and contracts present in the world of real estate straight can be tough, especially since so many of them seem to do similar things as other already existing contracts. A real estate license agreement is used by a land owner who is looking to license a piece ... Click to read the article details

An asset purchase agreement is the written agreement by which one company buys another company. Asset purchase agreements define the assets and liabilities to be sold. The buyer is purchasing whatever the two parties define as "the Business," including the rights to conduct this ... Click to read the article details

In the 1980s, corporate M&A activity intensified. Takeover targets seemed to be everywhere. Companies worried about protecting themselves and their best executives. Executives worried about keeping their jobs in the event of a takeover. Thus was born the change of control agreement, also known ... Click to read the article details

Of all of the legal agreements that you will have to go over in your lifetime, a real estate development agreement is one of the longest and one of the most complicated. Many of the other forms we've looked at here are short; usually one or two pages and they can be filled out and read over in ... Click to read the article details

A real estate purchase and sale agreement is a relatively short and straightforward contract that you can expect to sign if you are either buying or selling a piece of property. While corporate level versions of this contract can be quite laborious, ones designed for individual home sales from one ... Click to read the article details

We see it on television all the time; high priced lawyers presiding over important cases and raking in the money left and right. The reality, however, is often quite different.

Yes, there is quite a lot of earning potential being a lawyer, but it takes years of practice and seasoning ... Click to read the article details

When it comes to buying and selling a home, the average person has many more options available to them today than they did just a few short decades ago. It wasn't that long ago that the only option you had was to enlist the help of a certified broker who could help you buy or sell a home. Today, ... Click to read the article details

You don't have to be a real estate expert to have heard of release agreements. A release is one of the most common types of contracts in the world of law. They are used to allow a company to use someone's image for commercial use. However, a real estate release agreement isn't quite the same ... Click to read the article details

While a real estate indemnity agreement may have a scary or intimidating sounding name, it is a very common and very simple type of legal agreement. With a real estate indemnity agreement, one party is pledging to protect another from any kind of financial loss or from a lawsuit of some kind. We ... Click to read the article details

A non-disclosure agreement is made between two parties when they agree that one or both parties will not reveal specific information that is considered to be confidential by the disclosing party. Non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements are commonly used to enforce obligations of ... Click to read the article details

A license agreement is a written contract granting permission to use a creative work, trademark or invention to another party. This license will provide a way for the inventor or creator to profit from an invention or creative work while avoiding the necessity of personally manufacturing and ... Click to read the article details

A joint venture agreement is a legal agreement detailing a joint venture. A joint venture is a partnership that is generally created to carry out a specific business project or transaction. Usually a joint venture is undertaken for a limited period of time. Typically, a joint venture will last ... Click to read the article details

A power purchase agreement can be used to create a contract for the purchase of actual "power" as in energy. These kinds of power purchase agreements are also sometimes known as energy service agreements. If you are considering drafting this type of power purchase agreement, then there are a ... Click to read the article details

An independent contractor agreement is drawn up when a person or business is contracted to perform a service independently as an outsider of another person, business, firm or organization that contracts them.

Independent contractors enter into an agreement with a business or firm through ... Click to read the article details

A release is the action by which a person is relieved of an obligation, liabilities, or responsibility of any sort that they have either by legal, customary or contractual obligation. The agreement between two parties in which they reach consent regarding this release is considered to be the ... Click to read the article details

A development agreement is an understanding reached by two or individuals or parties about their respective rights and obligations in relation to a certain thing or a specific subject. The development on which these two parties are reaching agreement can fall into a number of categories. ... Click to read the article details

An extension agreement allots additional time to an existing legal contract. This agreement is reached between two or more parties regarding the extension of the existing contract. There are various forms that may also be used to extend the performance time under an existing legal ... Click to read the article details

A retailer is a business or firm that is engaged in offering services or goods directly to customers, or consumers. Retailers are usually concerned with selling some sort of merchandise. Such businesses generally sell individual or small groups of products to a large number of customers. This ... Click to read the article details

A member is any individual who belongs to an association, organization, company, corporation, partnership, or firm. In a membership agreement, an understanding is reached between members and the group to which they want to belong regarding the terms of their membership. This is a legal agreement ... Click to read the article details