Breach of Contract Demand Letter - California

CALIFORNIA CONTRACT MATTER — CLAIM AND DEMAND-DEVELOPMENT PACKET

DO NOT SEND THIS PACKET. It organizes contracts, facts, evidence,
calculations, deadlines, defenses, and drafting choices. It does not declare
a breach, trigger cure, terminate an agreement, accelerate an obligation,
demand payment, preserve a claim, impose a hold, or propose settlement.

1. Matter and Communication Control

2. Agreement and Document Stack

Contract Controls

3. Transaction and Governing-Law Classification

4. Performance, Breach, and Excuse Matrix

Prior Communications and Course of Performance

5. Notice, Cure, Termination, and Condition Calendar

6. Claim, Defense, and Deadline Matrix

Calendar the earliest credible deadline independently of any demand response.

7. Damages, Remedy, and Overlap Matrix

Do not add interest, fees, consequential loss, statutory remedies, punitive
damages, or equitable relief without a claim-specific basis and evidence.

Offsets, counterclaims, insurance, indemnity, or overlapping recovery:
[____________________________________________________________]

8. Evidence and Preservation Review

• ☐ complete signed agreement stack and incorporated documents
• ☐ negotiations, proposals, bids, purchase orders, and change records
• ☐ performance, delivery, acceptance, inspection, invoice, and payment records
• ☐ communications, notices, complaints, cure efforts, and acknowledgments
• ☐ accounting, damages, mitigation, replacement, and expert records
• ☐ insurance, indemnity, guarantee, security, lien, and collateral records
• ☐ electronic systems, custodians, retention, backups, and third-party records
• ☐ public, licensing, regulatory, and transaction-specific records

9. Recipient and Demand Decisions

10. Demand-Drafting and Sending Checklist

• ☐ complete agreement stack, parties, priority, amendments, and signatures verified
• ☐ transaction, governing law, forum, special law, and dispute route classified
• ☐ every obligation, condition, performance fact, breach, defense, and cure issue is supported
• ☐ all notice, cure, termination, acceleration, and filing deadlines are calendared
• ☐ claims, defenses, limitations, tolling, remedies, interest, fees, and damages use current official authority
• ☐ calculations address causation, certainty, foreseeability, mitigation, caps, offsets, and overlap
• ☐ preservation language states only counsel-approved duty and scope
• ☐ response period is fact-specific and does not replace any deadline
• ☐ final communication contains no blanks, unsupported threats, legal conclusions, or assumed entitlements
• ☐ client approved the verified factual account and settlement authority
• ☐ sending method, delivery proof, and final source file are preserved

Prepared by: [________________________________]

Preparation date: [__/__/____]

Reviewed by California counsel: [________________________________]

Review date: [__/__/____]