My wedding was set for April 26th of this year and we paid a 300$ deposit on a venue, and now with the President and CDC’s warning about gatherings of 10 or more we had to cancel. My fiance and I have compromised immune systems and can’t risk contracting the virus, as are a good chunk of our guests. They wont allow us to get our deposit back even though its due to the state of emergency in the US.
Everyone seems to concur. You cancelled the wedding. But wait - if the government creates a ban on such gatherings, then the venue could not perform its end of the contract and they would be legally obligated to refund your deposit or give you credit for a rescheduled date.
The cost of a lawsuit will be much more than $300.00 deposit you paid. More so if you hire an attorney. Due to the small amount and most likely a clause in the contract that states they will not refund for cancellations due to "acts of god" such as a pandemic, you are likely out the of the $300.00. You can pay to have an attorney review the contract if you insist, but plan on spending more than the $300.00 deposit just for contract review.
The contract terms control. What you are looking for is a force majure (act of God) provision in large part, but generally YOU cancelled the event, not them. They will likely argue could have had a smaller wedding or made other accommodation to go forward. If they wont give you a credit for a reschedule, any lawyer intervention will cost more than the $300.00 deposit at issue so its likely just an unfortunate loss.
Neither the President nor the Center for Disease Control cancelled your wedding,; you did. The lawyers answering questions cannot help you either. I suggest you contact the venue about re-scheduling the wedding for a later date, after the Corona virus is gone.
Read your contract. The coronavirus emergency doesn't supercede or cancel your contract terms, unless the contract cancellation clause (if there is one) provides for these sorts of unusual circumstances.
Cash and Stock Assets
I am getting divorced from my wife, TRYING to peacefully through mediation. We had both purchased a house in 1996, paid 119K, worth about 200K now, and we owe 140K on it (re-fied 2 loans into one a few years back). We both have the standard 401K plans, but no real savings - except - stock options that my father in law turned over to my soon to be Ex, worth about 80K. They are now in her name solely. She also just recently was awarded a 25K personal Injury lawsuit. She says that BOTH the stocks and the PI lawsuit money is HERS and I cannot touch it. We also declared chapter 13 Bankruptcy 2 years ago, and then had the case dismissed when I got laid off this last January. We technically owe 60K in un-secure debt. Our one car payment and mortgage is all up toi date. Two questions:
Am I entitled to ANY part of the liquid assets that she has in stocks and her personal injury lawsuit?
Do we both owe equally on whatever we have to end up paying on theunsecure debt?
Thank you so much,
Michael
Add Names to Property Deed
What form(s) are necessary to add my daughter and son-in-law to our property deed, so there would be 4 of us on the deed jtwros. There is a mortage held by my sister, and there is no objection to adding family members to the deed.
