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Contract Dissolution Agreement

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The Contract Dissolution Agreement is used if a contract is to be terminated as agreed upon by both parties.
Document Length: 4 Pages
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Use cases for this template

Nimbus Sensors unwinds a data pilot with ArcLight Data LLC

The Challenge

After a fast-moving proof-of-concept stalled, Nimbus Sensors needed to end ArcLight's analytics services without disrupting clients, while accounting for devices, source code, and final charges tied to the project's sudden change in scope.

The Solution

They used a service termination contract to cancel work, reclaim assets, and license ArcLight's reusable components, then turned to Proposal Kit to build supporting documents: an AI Writer-generated knowledge transfer plan, a decommissioning checklist, and a closeout report that mapped responsibilities and timelines.

The Implementation

Proposal Kit's document assembly bundled the plan, checklist, and report with schedules for equipment return; automated line-item quoting produced a reconciled final invoice covering labor, cloud fees, and data export; templates guided a post-project communications brief for stakeholders and clients.

The Outcome

ArcLight returned credentials and hardware on schedule, Nimbus maintained continuity using the licensed materials, and finance cleared the engagement in one cycle; the neatly packaged closeout records made audits painless and preserved the relationship for future proposals.

Copper Finch Creative disentangles a co-marketing partnership with Quasar Media Partners

The Challenge

Campaign goals diverged midyear, and both agencies agreed to terminate shared services while deciding how to handle creative assets, ad accounts, and obligations to a handful of retail clients without legal disputes or missed deadlines.

The Solution

They executed a cancellation agreement to end the work and allocate rights, then used Proposal Kit to create auxiliary documents: an AI Writer-drafted stakeholder communication plan, an asset distribution schedule, and a client transition brief that clarified who would service each account.

The Implementation

With document assembly, the team produced a coordinated closeout packet and calendar; automated line-item quoting itemized handoff fees, remaining media spend, and archival charges; prebuilt templates supported status summaries and a brand-guideline handover to the other party's teams.

The Outcome

Creative files and ad permissions were transferred cleanly, clients saw no service gaps, and both firms exited with clear records and balanced payments, freeing them to pursue separate strategies without lingering friction.

BridgePoint JV wraps a municipal pilot and releases Atlas GeoMetrics from surveying services

The Challenge

When the city paused the next project phase, the joint venture needed to terminate Atlas's field surveys, retrieve rented equipment, and document data custody while preparing a lessons-learned package for city officials.

The Solution

They applied a termination contract to cease services and confirm licensing of embedded mapping scripts, then relied on Proposal Kit to produce supporting documents: an AI Writer-created data handover plan, a site demobilization checklist, and a technical summary tailored to the city's review process.

The Implementation

Proposal Kit's document assembly merged the packet with equipment-return schedules and access revocation steps; automated line-item quoting detailed demobilization costs, remaining map-tile credits, and archival fees; templates helped craft a concise executive summary for the council liaison.

The Outcome

Gear came back intact, field records were archived with full traceability, Atlas was paid quickly, and the JV left the door open for a restart, backed by a complete, professional closeout dossier.

Abstract

This contract is a concise separation agreement between two or more parties-a Customer and a consulting firm-used to cancel ongoing services and wind down a business relationship in an orderly way. It functions like a formal partnership dissolution agreement for a project-based relationship, even though it is not an existing partnership agreement. The document sets the effective date, states the intent to terminate, and outlines the following steps to finalize the disengagement and ensure a smooth transition.

Key topics include cancellation of services, clear termination obligations, and the return of all Customer property in the Consultant's possession. The Consultant must cooperate at reasonable times to transfer assets, existing contracts, agreements, and related rights. The agreement establishes ownership boundaries: Consultant's Materials remain with the Consultant, while the Customer receives a perpetual license to use them for defined purposes.

The contract also addresses outstanding debts, final payments, applicable termination fees, and a hold harmless clause releasing the Customer from claims related to the engagement's completion. Confidentiality continues after termination, protecting the partnership's business information and clients. Equipment issued by the Customer must be returned, and expenses require prior written approval.

The general provisions track common state laws and practices. The agreement supersedes prior oral agreements, sets venue and governing law, and allows recovery of attorney's fees by the prevailing party in disputes. It restricts assignment without parties' consent and requires good-faith conduct.

While dissolving a partnership often involves asset distribution, capital contributions, profits, proceeds, public notice in a local newspaper, or filing with a county recording officer, this contract deals mainly with property return, debt settlement, and accounts reconciliation. For security, teams should verify device and data returns; internal verification logs (for example, a ray ID or similar token) can document verification successful, waiting only on any remaining equipment. No liquidating partner is appointed; instead, one partner-or a designated manager-can be appointed to act on behalf of both sides to settle money, taxes, leases, permits, and other partnership-related issues tied to the engagement. If conflicts or bankruptcy arise, a lawyer can help decide procedures to file or finalize additional documents. Counterparts and certificates may be used in other contexts, but are not required by this same agreement.

Use cases include ending an IT consulting retainer, closing a project with other partners while preserving security, or terminating a service provider's access to office systems and accounts. Proposal Kit helps businesses establish and document such an agreement using its partnership dissolution agreement template, partnership termination agreement, and related materials. Its document assembly, automated line-item quoting for final invoices, AI Writer for supporting documents, and extensive template library support efficient writing and completion with clear responsibilities and procedures.

For organizations that operate as a business partnership, this termination model aligns with steps often used when two or more partners wind down shared work. Even if the original partnership agreement governs partnership assets, the process here still helps partners involved return property, reconcile the partnership's books, and meet financial obligations tied to the engagement. Where business partners wish to exit cleanly, it is vital that the partners agree on who is responsible for collecting equipment, verifying data handoff, and distributing any remaining assets connected to the project. If the terms the partners entered require notice to the other party, the duties deemed necessary, such as how to appoint a manager to coordinate closeout, should be followed to fulfill the agreement.

Sometimes a forced exit or insolvency can ripple into a broader dissolution process or even liquidation. In those cases, entities often update registered records and status, manage submitting notices, and obtain any certificate or evidence of closure from authorities, while this contract focuses on service termination steps. Practical consequences include settling open invoices, confirming account access removals, and documenting who will maintain archives. Use this approach when separate firms collaborate on a software build, an agency-of-record engagement ends, or a multivendor rollout changes scope and one partner steps away.

Proposal Kit can streamline writing for the other party and remaining partners by assembling coordinated documents that mirror the original partnership agreement structure, including asset schedules and closeout checklists. Its extensive template library, document assembly, automated line-item quoting for final invoices, and AI Writer for supporting materials help teams produce consistent, professional paperwork quickly and with ease of use.

Beyond closing tasks and payments, this agreement helps companies control operational risk during offboarding. The perpetual license to Consultant's Materials reduces disruption by allowing the Customer to continue using incorporated tools and documentation after termination. The confidentiality section expressly survives, which supports data retention policies and audit readiness when regulators or clients ask for evidence of proper handling.

The assignment, governing law, and venue clauses set expectations for where and how disputes will be handled, which can lower litigation costs. The attorney's fees clause can also deter weak claims by clarifying fee-shifting consequences. Because expenses require preapproval, finance teams can cut off unauthorized spend immediately. Requiring return of equipment at a time and place of the Customer's choice tightens chain-of-custody controls for devices and credentials.

This structure fits common offboarding scenarios: ending a managed services provider engagement, sunsetting a research pilot formed under a statement of work, or rotating out a subcontractor from a multivendor program. Teams can add checklists for source code escrow, credential deprovisioning, and archival of the project's communications to ensure nothing is overlooked. Proposal Kit supports producing these coordinated closeout documents and related schedules alongside the termination agreement, using its document assembly, AI Writer for supporting materials, automated line-item quoting for final invoices, and an extensive template library to keep the process consistent and efficient.

How to write my Contract Dissolution Agreement document - The Narrative

THIS AGREEMENT is made this Current Day day of Current Month, Current Year by and between Company Name ("Consultants") and Company Name ("Customer").

In consideration of the mutual covenants set forth in this Agreement, Customer and Consultants hereby agree to cancel any and all work, projects or labor as follows:

Cancellation of Services

Consultants shall cease any and all computer consulting services described below (the "Services" or "Work Product"), as well as any additional services that Customer has requested.

Services include, but are not limited to:

Enter Service or Work Product Description here.

Termination Obligations

Upon termination of this Agreement, Consultants shall transfer and make available to Customer all property and materials in Consultant's possession or subject to Consultant's control that are the rightful property of Customer. The Consultant shall make every reasonable effort to secure all written or descriptive matter which pertains to the Services or Work Product and agrees to provide reasonable cooperation to arrange for the transfer of all property, contracts, agreements, supplies and other third party interests, including those not then utilized, and all rights and claims thereto and therein. In the event of loss or destruction of any such material or descriptive matter, Consultants shall immediately notify Customer of the details of the loss or destruction in writing and provide the necessary information for a loss statement or other documentation to Customer.

Ownership Rights

The Consultant shall have ownership to all Consultant's Materials.

"Consultant's Material consists of all copyrightable:

Materials that do not constitute Services or Work Product (as defined in Sect 1, Services and Exhibit B, Specifications). Materials that are solely owned by Consultants or licensed to Consultants. Materials that are incorporated into the Work Product or a part of the Services.

Additional material shall include, but are not limited to:

Insert details about additional material here. Consultant shall hold all right, title, and interest in and to Consultant's Material. Customer shall not do anything that may infringe upon or in any way undermine Consultants' right, title, and interest in the Consultant's Material, as described in this paragraph 4. Notwithstanding the above, Consultant hereby grants Customer an unrestricted, nonexclusive, perpetual, fully paid-up worldwide license for the use or for the sublicense of the use of Consultant's Material for the purpose of.

Insert purpose materials will be used for here. Outstanding Final Compensation and Hold Harmless Agreements. For all of Consultants' services rendered to Customer under any Previous Agreement, Customer shall compensate Consultants, in cash, pursuant to the terms of Exhibit A attached hereto.

By accepting the terms of this offer and signing in the space provided below, you hereby release and forever discharge and hold Customer, its successors, employers, employees, agents, officers, directors, shareholders, affiliates and insurers harmless of all claims, suits or liability, directly or indirectly related to your employment, retainment of services or the termination of such services and specifically and without limitation any claims to pay in lieu of notice, wrongful dismissal, severance, vacation, bonus or overtime pay. This release includes, but is not limited to, all contract and tort claims between Customer and Consultants concerning Customer's right to terminate its employees, contractors, and vendor agreements and claims or rights under local, state and federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. By signing below you agree that these terms represent a full and final settlement of any and all claims you have arising out of your employment or contract employment by Customer.

Mutual Confidentiality

Customer and Consultants acknowledge and agree that the Specifications and all other documents and information related to the performance, production, creation or any expression of the services or work product are the property of Customer. Materials provided between Consultants and Customer (the "Confidential Information") including, but not limited to, documentation, product specifications, drawings, pictures, photographs, charts, correspondence, supplier lists, financial reports, analyses and other furnished property shall be the exclusive property of the respected owner (the "Owning Party") and will constitute valuable trade secrets. Both parties shall continue to keep the Confidential Information in confidence and shall not, at any time during or after the term of this Agreement, without prior written consent from the owning party, disclose or otherwise make available to anyone, either directly or indirectly, all or any part of the Confidential Information. Excluded from the "Confidential Information" definition is anything that can be seen by the public or had been previously made available by the owning party in a public venue.

Equipment and Expenses

If Customer has made available to Consultants, for Consultants' use in performing the services for Customer, such items of hardware and software as Customer and Consultants may agree are reasonably necessary for such purpose, Consultants are obligated to return all Customer property currently in their possession at a time and place of Customer's choice. The following equipment and/or services have been made available to Consultants and are hereby required to be return to Customer. Insert Equipment or Services description here.

Expenses

Consultants will not be reimbursed for any expenses incurred in connection with the Services or Work Product, whether direct or indirect, without the express written approval of Customer.

General Provisions

1 Entire Agreement

This Agreement contains the entire Agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersedes any and all prior agreements or understandings, written or oral, between the parties related to the subject matter hereof. No modification of this Agreement shall be valid unless made in writing and signed by both of the parties hereto.

2 Governing Law

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of State. Exclusive jurisdiction and venue shall be in the County County, State Superior Court.

3 Binding Effect

This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of Customer and Consultants and their respective successors and assigns, provided that Consultants may not assign any of his obligations under this Agreement without Customer's prior written consent.

4 Waiver

The waiver by either party of any breach or failure to enforce any of the terms and conditions of this Agreement at any time shall not in any way affect, limit, or waive such party's right thereafter to enforce and compel strict compliance with every term and condition of this Agreement.

5 Good Faith

Each party represents and warrants to the other that such party has acted in good faith, and agrees to continue to so act, in the negotiation, execution, delivery, performance, and any termination of this Agreement.

6 No Right to Assign

Consultants have no right to assign, sell, modify or otherwise alter this Agreement, except upon the express written advance approval of Customer, which consent can be withheld for any reason. Customer may freely assign its rights and obligations under this Agreement.

7 Attorney's Fees

In the event any party to this Agreement employs an attorney to enforce any of the terms of the Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its actual attorney's fees and costs, including expert witness fees.

Each party represents and warrants that, on the date first written above, they are authorized to enter into this Agreement in entirety and duly bind their respective principals by their signature below:

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