Is an agreement without initials on pages with material terms Vaild for those terms?
I had a commitment agreement with my employer. It was a two page printed agreement produced by them. Some terms on the first page are material and are against me, but do not bear initials on that pages by me. I suspect that the page has been replaced (I can not prove). Are those terms valid or disputable?
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NO, you can't dispute it. Let this be a lesson to you. Initial every page EVEN IF you are not asked to. The terms ARE valid and you ARE bound by them in almost every single court, unless you can prove with substantial certainty that the page has been replaced.
Generally, yes -- the point of the initials is to defeat any potential claim by the person signing that you were unaware of those provisions and thus unfairly surprised by them.
But those provisions are still binding if you signed the overall document.
If you have a copy of the document that you signed, you can use that to attempt to prove changes to the first page -- otherwise it's a "you-said, they-said" debate.
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