Equine legal contracts for horse sales, leases, breeding, training, lessons and boarding.
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To introduce a new contract, schedule a barn meeting at a time when most of your boarders can attend, such as an evening or weekend.
Boarders frequently want to negotiate boarding contract terms. Here is our advice, based upon our experience representing boarding facilities.
Having a trainer at your facility can draw new clients, but consider these five things first.
The primary risk is that the child or teen could be involved in an accident.
Abandoned tack and horses are fairly common problems for boarding facilities.
California Civil Code Section 3080 provides California persons and businesses with an automatic lien on their customers’ horses to satisfy debts incurred in caring for or providing services to those horses.
While you may have the right to foreclose on a nonpaying client's lien, it is not always the best choice. Sometimes, it's best to just let the horses go.
NY Lien Law Art. 8 §183 provides New York persons and businesses with an automatic lien on their customers’ horses to satisfy debts incurred in caring for or providing services to those horses.