I trust that someone will keep their word, but writing it down, preferably with contractual language establishing what happens if they don't, or I don't, reduces the possibility of either of us screwing over the other.
Once you get screwed over once, you use these legal instruments profusely, because the US small claims system works pretty well. Of course, the person you're going after has to have what you want from them: you cannot bleed a dry heart.
I trust that someone will keep their word, but writing it down, preferably with contractual language establishing what happens if they don't, or I don't, reduces the possibility of either of us screwing over the other.
Once you get screwed over once, you use these legal instruments profusely, because the US small claims system works pretty well. Of course, the person you're going after has to have what you want from them: you cannot bleed a dry heart.