Contract woes come in a variety of flavors, like ice cream.

A few disputes arise because someone never bothered to read the contract. (“I’m sorry, judge, but I didn’t read it before I signed it” sounds ridiculous and almost never succeeds as a breach-of-contract defense.)

Some other disagreements come about because one of the parties read the contract but didn’t understand it.

A third variety of dispute involves two individuals who read the contract and understood it, or thought they did, but whose respective understandings of the agreement don’t mesh