Legal Question in Administrative Law in Maryland

contract altering

My small company prepared a contract for home improvement (I'm licensed). The contract was signed by me and the homeowner We have had a disagreement and she filed a complaint. She submitted a copy of our contract but had handwritten extra items on both pages which were never agreed to by me and which were not a part of the original contract. I have the original signed contract, signed by her and myself, which shows that there have been no alterations. Is that fraud on her part? She is complaining to the commission that I have not completed the items that were handwritten in on the contract. The only items remaining are what she added sometime after the original contract was typed and executed by both of us. What are my options?


Asked on 3/30/05, 3:53 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Worsham Michael C. Worsham, Esq.

Re: contract altering

You described fraudulent behavior, which you would have to explain to the Commission. If you have samples of other contracts which you and the customer had agreed to make hand written changes to, and did so with initialing, you should get those to show the Commission how you would have made such changes if they had in fact been made.

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Answered on 3/30/05, 4:36 pm


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