@Seer

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Seer wrote: @Lou Contracts are effective when all parties have signed them, not when they are drafted. But don't you put a date on the contract when you sign, next to the signature to determine just that (when the contract is in effect) ? The "signed date" so to speak ?

In the USA, it's almost impossible to find a place for a signature without a place for a date of signature for it.

@Seer

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Seer wrote: @Lou Contracts are effective when all parties have signed them, not when they are drafted. But don't you put a date on the contract when you sign, next to the signature to determine just that (when the contract is in effect) ? The "signed date" so to speak ?

maybe I misread your point...

If I sign a contract today and you, as the other party, can't sign it until next month because a set of events hasn't happened yet that would let you fulfill your end of the contract, then the contract is not in effect until you as the last signature required, sign the contract on whatever date that may be.