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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find all of the pearl clutching about the morals of breaking contracts in these threads to be so interesting. I am someone who never breaks contracts or backs out of things, so I doubt I'd find myself in this situation absent unusual circumstances. But I'm also a lawyer and people break contracts all the time. Sometimes it's the reasonable, logical thing to do. These schools are businesses too, and they will get over it and likely fill the seat if the school is any good. [/quote]
So as a lawyer, your advice to the school where someone broke their contract but doesn’t want to pay the costs they agreed to by signing the contract, is to just get over and not try to enforce it? Interesting take. [/quote]

Lol, as a lawyer, I can assure you that advice is dispensed very regularly. You explain the likelihood of success, what the client would obtain if it won everything it wanted, and the cost of litigation. You then put a dollar figure on the value of the case. If the case has negative or minimal value, you typically advise the client not to bring it unless there is some sort of personal reason for not bringing the suit. [/quote]

Also a lawyer.  Would have to advise client near zero chance of success in these situations because contracts are very explicit on what damages are for breach.  Further, there is an easy way to mitigate, tuition insurance.  Far cheaper to pay $40,000 than litigate and then pay $40,000.

[b]Also, the military service poster is clearly a troll.[/b]

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Yea, my mom LOVES to keep up with the DOD gossip networks around here (retirement only gave her more time for tea exchange) and her other favorite gossip topic is comparing k-12 schools... I just enrolled my son in private for next year so I'm sure I would have gotten an earful if that had happened in the DMV...[/quote]

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