There are no statewide Pennsylvania general contractor license or certification requirements. However, any contractor who performs at least $5,000 worth of home improvements per year must register with the Attorney General's office.
Include both the hours and the minutes (not the seconds). When writing times, prefer using a colon over a point between hours and minutes. Do not add hrs or o'clock: h. Use a.m.
Offer and Acceptance: One party must make an offer, and the other must accept it. Mutual Consent: Both parties agree to the terms without coercion. Contract law often refers to this condition as a "meeting of the minds." Competence: The parties must have the legal capacity to agree.
A prior breach, said Murphy, is the most common way contracts or a portion thereof are determined to be unenforceable. “If there has been a prior breach of the contract, the party who breached that contract doesn't then get to enforce the contract,” he said.
While duration is only one factor among many that determines whether a worker is a contractor or an employee, six months is usually recommended as a safe duration and one-year should usually be considered an outside limit, assuming that the other independent contractor criteria are met.