Can I Have a Support Order Voided if I Didn't Understand What I Agreed to?
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A "default judgment" may be rendered against a party if it is the result of a party's failure to take a necessary step in the action within the proper time; this generally means a failure to plead or otherwise defend within the time allowed. This means the relief requested by the opposing party will be granted automatically if you fail to appear.
Courts have held that a party may rescind a contract for fraud, incapacity, duress, undue influence, material breach in performance of a promise, or mistake, among other grounds. An agreement made under duress may be set aside if the duress took the free will away of the person seeking to avoid the contract. In a duress situation, a party enters a contract to avoid a threatened danger. This threat may be a threat of physical harm to person or to the property of someone (physical duress) or it may be a threat of financial loss (economic duress).
It is possible to rescind a contract based on mistake. Mistake covers a broad set of situations, and courts often distinguish between unilateral mistake and mutual mistake. A unilateral mistake is an incorrect belief of one party that is not shared by the other party. A mutual mistake is an incorrect belief shared by both parties. Courts have traditionally held that mutual mistakes are more likely than unilateral mistakes to make a contract voidable.
Where only one of the parties is mistaken about facts relating to the contract, the mistake will not prevent formation of a contract unless the nonmistaken party is or should have been aware of the mistake made by the other party.
A person makes a contract under duress when there is violence or the threat of violence to the extent that the person is deprived of his free will and makes the contract to avoid harm. The threatened harm may be directed at a relative of the contracting party as well as against the contracting party. If a contract is made under duress, the agreement may be rescinded or declared null and void.
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