Can we still sue if we signed a contract agreeing not to sue?

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Can we still sue if we signed a contract agreeing not to sue?

My husband worked for someone in CA just over a year ago. They signed a contract to pay him hourly and to give him a retainer of $2500 prior to him flying out there. They didn’t actually pay him the retainer until he was physically there and after about a week of him working. After he completed the job and came back home, he invoiced the client monthly but they never responded until a few months later when he started the process for small claims court to retrieve the balance owed. He sent them notifications that if they did not pay by a specified time, he would sue. The day before he was going to submit the application, they said they would pay him if he signed a

Asked on August 18, 2019 under Employment Labor Law, Oregon

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SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney

Answered 4 years ago | Contributor

Yes, you can sue them because a contract is terminated by the other party's material, or significant, breach or violation of it: in short, a person cannot hold another to contract which he has already violated. The person your husband worked for failed to pay your husband, which they had agreed to do so in exchange for his promise to not sue; having violated the agreement by failing to pay, they cannot now hold him to his promise to not sue.


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