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Changing Family Law Agreements (view source)
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A family law agreement can be changed by a later agreement. If the parties to an agreement both agree that the original agreement should be changed and on how it should be changed, the parties can sign a second agreement called an ''amendment agreement'', an ''amending agreement'' or an ''addendum agreement'' to the original agreement. | A family law agreement can be changed by a later agreement. If the parties to an agreement both agree that the original agreement should be changed and on how it should be changed, the parties can sign a second agreement called an ''amendment agreement'', an ''amending agreement'' or an ''addendum agreement'' to the original agreement. | ||
An agreement changing an agreement must refer to the original agreement and is usually titled something like "Amendment to the Separation Agreement Executed on 1 April 2010. | An agreement changing an agreement must refer to the original agreement and is usually titled something like "Amendment to the Separation Agreement Executed on 1 April 2010". Amending agreements are usually very short as the idea is to change just one particular part of an agreement rather than to rewrite the original agreement in its entirety. The amending agreement should specify which particular paragraph of the original agreement is being changed, and then set out the new text of that paragraph: | ||
<blockquote><tt>2. The parties agree that Paragraph 23 of the Agreement executed on 1 April 2010 will be cancelled and be replaced with the following:</tt></blockquote> | <blockquote><tt>2. The parties agree that Paragraph 23 of the Agreement executed on 1 April 2010 will be cancelled and be replaced with the following:</tt></blockquote> | ||