When Breach of Contract Becomes Fraud or Civil Theft
Posted September 08, 2026 in Media
A breach of contract claim is fairly straightforward in the sense that it’s easy to identify when one person on a contract or company performed the service for which the contract was and payment wasn’t rendered or payment was rendered for a service that wasn’t produced. Most people can identify that problem and know they probably need to get a lawyer on board if if there are any amount of significant damages at play. There may be things like fraudulent inducement to sign the contract. You know, lies that were told
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to you to get you to sign it in the way that you signed it or agree to what you agreed to. You know, you could be looking at buying a property and then the seller lied about what the property had on it and and what some of the problems were that cost you a lot of money to repair. You may be looking at things like civil theft. there there may be something there where you gave so much money to a vendor to produce a particular service they didn’t they know they didn’t and they’re not giving you
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your money back and that might be a wrongful retention of those funds and therefore civil theft which is also felony theft you can bring civily and get up the treble damages and attorneys fees you know look at other things like theft of trade secrets there are statutes that deal with this stuff out there are often a few kind of uh other types of claims of action out there that might be available where the law provides more significant punitive remedies than just a basic breach of contract claim where you just want your
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money Back.
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