About Franchise Termination Help
Franchise Termination Help explains one situation carefully: what a US franchisee is looking at after a notice of default, termination or non-renewal, starting with the cure period and what state law says about it.
Who writes it
It is written and maintained by the Franchise Termination Help editorial team. Nobody on the team is a lawyer giving advice through this site. No page is legal advice, an assessment of your notice, or a view on how a particular dispute will turn out. What the team does is read statutes, rules, regulators' pages and court-published material directly, quote them accurately, and mark the places where a point could not be confirmed.
Franchise Termination Help is an independent information site operated by a company that is not a law firm and has no lawyers on staff. It is not a franchisor, a franchise association or a government agency. It does not give legal advice, nothing here has assessed your notice or your situation, and reading it does not create a lawyer-client relationship. Your notice and your franchise agreement state your own cure period.
How a figure gets onto a page
Every number of days, fee, statute section and quotation was read from the source page itself and recorded, with the address and the date it was checked, before it was written into a page. If a claim could not be traced to a primary source, it was left out, or the page says plainly that the point is not settled. Statutes are amended and fee schedules change, so sources carry a "checked" date. Where the official site could not be read, the page says the text came from a mirror.
The sources this site uses
- State franchise relationship statutes, read on each legislature's site where it could be read, for good cause, notice and cure rules.
- The Federal Trade Commission and the Code of Federal Regulations, for the FTC Franchise Rule and what it covers.
- The American Arbitration Association and the federal courts, for the cost and mechanics of arbitration and litigation.
- State bars and the American Bar Association, for how to check and hire a lawyer.
Every guide and article lists the sources it was built from, linking straight to the source and not to a summary of it.
What this site will not publish
- Any statement that your notice is valid or invalid, that you have a claim, or that you are in or out of time. Your notice and your franchise agreement state your cure period.
- Any calculation of your deadline, or any tool that produces a verdict on your situation.
- Any prediction of how a dispute will turn out, or any success rate.
- Any claim that the site has attorneys, or any promise of an outcome.
- Any recommendation of a particular law firm.
Independence, and how the site may be funded
Franchise Termination Help is independent of every franchisor, franchise association and law firm. Its contact form is switched off at the moment. If it is opened, it would send your details to one franchise law firm, named next to the form, that pays this site a fixed advertising fee that does not depend on how many people write or what happens afterwards. The form would be labelled Attorney Advertising. That does not change what the guides say, and no firm is recommended on this site.
Telling us something is wrong
Statutes are amended and agencies update pages without notice. If a quotation here no longer matches its source, email team@franchiseterminationhelp.com with the page and what you found. Corrections are made against the source, not against a recollection of it.