Select an article below, or browse the summaries that follow.
- Horse Registration Papers: Who Owns Them After a Sale?
Explore ownership disputes involving registration papers and the contract terms buyers and sellers should address before completing a sale.
- Why Equine Liability Waivers Fail: Law, Wording, and Signing Problems
Examine three common failure points: unfavorable state law, defective language, and problems with how the waiver was presented or signed.
- How to Make an Equine Liability Waiver More Enforceable
Improve waiver language, presentation, signatures, renewal practices, and record retention while recognizing that waivers do not replace insurance.
- Five More Clauses to Strengthen Equine Contracts
Address form-contract limitations, waiver details, state-specific rules, attorney fees, and insurance responsibilities in equine agreements.
- Five Essential Clauses for Equine Contracts
Review indemnification, statutory warnings, dispute resolution, written-modification requirements, and authority to sign for a corporation.
- Equine Liability Waiver Myths: What Releases Can and Cannot Do
Correct common misconceptions about enforceability, minors, negligence, warning signs, form releases, and the continuing need for liability insurance.
- Equine Activity Liability Laws: Common Myths and Real Limitations
Learn what state equine activity statutes may protect, which exceptions still allow lawsuits, and why insurance remains essential.
- How to Avoid Legal Disputes When Buying a Horse
Reduce purchase disputes with a written agreement, independent veterinary exam, clear representations, and complete transaction records.
- Six Equine Contract Mistakes That Lead to Costly Disputes
Learn how verbal deals, generic forms, vague terms, missing dispute provisions, and other oversights create avoidable legal conflicts.
- Essential Clauses for a Strong Horse Boarding Contract
Strengthen boarding agreements by clearly addressing services, fees, late payments, veterinary care, liens, insurance, termination, and liability.
- What Must a Seller Disclose When Selling a Horse?
Understand how fraud, concealment, warranties, and state law may affect a seller’s duty to disclose a horse’s condition and history.
- How Trainers and Stable Owners Can Collect Unpaid Fees
Explore written contracts, deposits, late charges, liens, recordkeeping, and other tools for preventing and collecting overdue balances.
- What Do Equine Activity Liability Laws Actually Protect?
An overview of statutory protections, required warnings, covered participants, common exceptions, and the continuing need for insurance.
- Will Your Equine Liability Waiver Hold Up in Court?
Learn why signed waivers can still be challenged and which drafting, signing, and recordkeeping problems may undermine enforcement.
- Horse Registration Papers: Who Owns Them After a Sale?
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Explore ownership disputes involving registration papers and the contract terms buyers and sellers should address before completing a sale.
- Why Equine Liability Waivers Fail: Law, Wording, and Signing Problems
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Examine three common failure points: unfavorable state law, defective language, and problems with how the waiver was presented or signed.
- How to Make an Equine Liability Waiver More Enforceable
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Improve waiver language, presentation, signatures, renewal practices, and record retention while recognizing that waivers do not replace insurance.
- Five More Clauses to Strengthen Equine Contracts
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Address form-contract limitations, waiver details, state-specific rules, attorney fees, and insurance responsibilities in equine agreements.
- Five Essential Clauses for Equine Contracts
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Review indemnification, statutory warnings, dispute resolution, written-modification requirements, and authority to sign for a corporation.
- Equine Liability Waiver Myths: What Releases Can and Cannot Do
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Correct common misconceptions about enforceability, minors, negligence, warning signs, form releases, and the continuing need for liability insurance.
- Equine Activity Liability Laws: Common Myths and Real Limitations
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Learn what state equine activity statutes may protect, which exceptions still allow lawsuits, and why insurance remains essential.
- How to Avoid Legal Disputes When Buying a Horse
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Reduce purchase disputes with a written agreement, independent veterinary exam, clear representations, and complete transaction records.
- Six Equine Contract Mistakes That Lead to Costly Disputes
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Learn how verbal deals, generic forms, vague terms, missing dispute provisions, and other oversights create avoidable legal conflicts.
- Essential Clauses for a Strong Horse Boarding Contract
by Julie I. Fershtman, Esq.
Strengthen boarding agreements by clearly addressing services, fees, late payments, veterinary care, liens, insurance, termination, and liability.
- What Must a Seller Disclose When Selling a Horse?
by Denise Farris, Esq.
Understand how fraud, concealment, warranties, and state law may affect a seller’s duty to disclose a horse’s condition and history.
- How Trainers and Stable Owners Can Collect Unpaid Fees
by Michael Beethe, Esq.
Explore written contracts, deposits, late charges, liens, recordkeeping, and other tools for preventing and collecting overdue balances.
- What Do Equine Activity Liability Laws Actually Protect?
by Michael Beethe, Esq.
An overview of statutory protections, required warnings, covered participants, common exceptions, and the continuing need for insurance.
- Will Your Equine Liability Waiver Hold Up in Court?
by Denise Farris, Esq.
Learn why signed waivers can still be challenged and which drafting, signing, and recordkeeping problems may undermine enforcement.
