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"Waiver of Liability"... suggestions?

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40hz:
You might not be able to enter into a legal contract if you are a minor where you live.

In Connecticut you can't. So unless somebody is asking your legal guardian to sign for a you, there is no enforceable contract here.

In CT, if you hire a minor and something goes wrong, the court's attitude has usually been: "It was your decision to hire a minor. We are not going to bail you out."

I suppose you could always be charged with vandalism if you royally screwed something up. ;) But that's would be hard to argue unless you did something deliberately malicious.

But please be careful about asking people to sign something. Contracts and agreements go both ways. If you show up with something for them to sign - they just might decide they do require your parent's signature. Which would be a legally binding contract. Except it's your parents that are now liable - not you.

You really do need some professional legal advice.

Consider it part of your learning experience. We all wind up talking to an attorney sooner or later.

Luck! :Thmbsup:

wreckedcarzz:
Dunno, I can always get my dad to sign it off with me, not sure. Might have to go talk to someone who can "officially" craft something up. We have a family attorney that does stuff for us (specifically, for my sister) quite a bit...

And I don't jump into anything I don't think I can handle - I don't have the slightest clue how to fix a car engine, but IMO I can fix almost any computer problem that gets thrown at me with relative ease. Dunno... I'll have to figure something out how I can't fix everything (shotgun bullets through the motherboard, as I read somewhere on the internet a year or so ago, for example).

Thanks for the advice, guys :)

Renegade:
Check http://www.myworktools.com for one. They often have just what you're looking for. They're usually a few dollars, but provide you with some excellent templates that you can customize.

wreckedcarzz:
Check http://www.myworktools.com for one. They often have just what you're looking for. They're usually a few dollars, but provide you with some excellent templates that you can customize.

-Renegade (September 08, 2008, 10:50 PM)
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Will do :)

Renegade:
I just came across this -- http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.676186.5

Might be a bit useful. Someone else has a similar question there.

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