Legal Question in Business Law in California

Re: Contract Notice of Termination

If that is what your contract requires, then that is what you have to do.

Re: Contract Notice of Termination

I know you think you adequately described the question in your posting, but without reviewing the contract itself, one can not give you an opinion worth relying on. You should contact an attorney and make arrangements to fax or mail the contract in question for review. If you are in business, you should have an attorney relationship upon which you can rely for these types of routine matters.

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Re: Contract Notice of Termination

As you have noticed, attorneys are reluctant to interpret contracts they haven't read. However, a general principle of contract law is that when a contract expires by its own terms, neither party has any further rights under the contract except as necessary to clean up transactions that have already taken place or are under way. For example, unpaid invoices are still payable.

An exception is that if the parties disregard the expiration and continue to do new business with one another, courts frequently will infer that the parties have agreed to extend the contract.

Therefore, although you are probably OK simply to discontinue doing business under the contract at the time it expires, it is always a good idea to give the other party some kind of notice, just to avoid misunderstandings or any possibility that an extension can be implied from the fact of continued dealings.

I join in the recommendation that you have a business attorney review and advise on your contracts and other business affairs.

Re: Contract Notice of Termination

Does the contract have an automatic renewal provision. If not you probably do not have to give notice but the contract should be reviewed carefully to make certain there are not other requirements.

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