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Osaka sued by ex-junior coach over 20% of earnings: report

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It'll most likely be a settlement with help from the courts

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If the contract is real, it is binding, plain and simple. I'm guessing this is part of the reason he was let go -- more money -- and clearly it was not amicable as some have said (even them, I think). 

It's not binding. And you seem to think this is the coach she recently let go. It's not. It's a Haitian coach from when she was 14 years old, well before anyone knew she would hit the big time.

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I thought only women sue over men but this time man sueing a woman. Well, as the Asian society is crazy but the whole western world is crazyness.

When a person is miserably failure, he/she attacks any possible for the easy sleazy life.

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He is just a PUNK YANK, trying on a scam. And even if true, trump will take 50% in tax.

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I meant to add, they will be looking to settle this as quietly as they can (can't do it as quietly as they would have liked) before it gets even worse. Of course, now he's going to want millions more.

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If the contract is real, it is binding, plain and simple. I'm guessing this is part of the reason he was let go -- more money -- and clearly it was not amicable as some have said (even them, I think). Now that they didn't pay him more, as I'm sure they wish they had, this is coming out. Even if they beat it, it is damaging if he does indeed have a signed contract.

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Yeah, I don't think Bajin would work for free to put himself in this position. As for Mr. Jean, it may be that he thinks indefinite is like infinite, when it should say undetermined or non-defined. Sneaky word choice by somebody.

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And so the truth comes out.

No wonder she dumped him. It was hardly a mutually agreeable split, more like a bitter divorce.

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"Indefinite" does not mean "unlimited." If the former term was not defined, the contract is invalid.

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He's not going to get it.

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but it could also be an actual unfaked document. But that doesn’t necessarily make it a valid, binding agreement.

Signed contracts tend to be valid and binding, but we'll see.

1 - is there a contract?

2 - is it signed by both parties?

3 - is it legal?

4 - how long is it legal for?

There are a lot of hurdles to clear! My guess is that they will end up settling out of court.

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Worse, he just coached her for a while when she was a kid. A total scam artist.

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There is no way he can claim any right to her earnings after she turned 18. She didn't sign the contract herself, so it is simply not valid. Otherwise, parents could sign their children into a lifetime of servitude. Some guy with a million dollar gambling debt and a 14 year old son could sign away his son's adult earnings, for example.

And "indefinite period"? No such thing in any legitimate contract.

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Interesting little problem here. If, say, the contract did exist how would it work?

A parent can sign a contract on behalf of their child, but one the child legally becomes an adult and was not a signatory to that contract, is it still valid.

I would guess if it exists, he has a claim to 20% of her winnings until she became an adult. In most counties this is 18 years.

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This is quite a simple case, where is that contract? where is that signature? 1; Here is the contract and signature, then pay up 2; no contract or signature, good by!

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