You gave somebody $20,000? Did you have a lawyer look at the contract before you wrote the $20,000 check? Maybe you can still sue him. See a lawyer in your locality without delay.

This is an opportunity for you to forward the signed agreement to two or three attorneys of your choice to have them give you a free 20 miute review of the written contract...then decide which attorney you like and believe in the most and take the next step to get you the money back...questions?

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It sounds like you may have a case. Please send me a description of what happened by email with dates and dollar amounts.

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The first issue a lawyer representing you would need to address is whether you became a partner or a lender. Very different law would apply, and very different remedies might be available.

If you became a partner, your lawyer should then sue to have a court confirm that fact, and for an accounting for the value of your partnership interest and its payment to you as a withdrawing partner. This is provided for by statute under the Revised Uniform Partnership Act, a part of California's Corporations Code.

If the agreement is construed as a loan of money rather than a partnership agreement, which it may be since it may call for repayment of fiexed amounts rather than a sharing of the business' actual profits and losses, a court would have to figure out any unspecified terms and give you a judgment for payment of anything that's past due.

This is an oversimplified explanation, but the point is that step one is to determine whether you are a creditor or a co-owner, or perhaps both, under the agreement.