My mother in law sold us some land on a contract. She had her daughter who isn't a legal draw this contract up.using other contracts she had . WE have paid the payments on time for a year and a half. Been paying the taxes on some of it for about 8 years and have paid the taxes on it all this year .Now she is in financial trouble and wants to resend the contract . What can I do ? Also the way the contract was written it stated that everything on the land when we bought it became ours after so many days . This included some old machinery we spent money and fixed this up as we have been fixing the house on the property . Now she wants things back . What can I do . We don’t have allot of money this is why we went this way . I need to find some legal help I can afford . Robin

Write her a letter, tell her you don't want to burden the court with this and that she'll have to pay your attorney fees for such a frivilous suit and for bothering the court. A contract is the same as an agreement. They can be express meaning written or implied. The things that make up an agreement are offer, acceptance and consideration-or money in laymans terms. Barring some extraordinary breech of contract she has no recourse. Finacial hardship a year and a half after is no reason to rescind the contract. You may want to float her some money to keep or some land to build on or some land for her to keep but you are in reality no way obligated to her for her act of kindness only really to the extent that your conscinece will allow. So try and be nice. Brian