Q: if I signed something while under the influence of something &also having a mental disability & didn't understand
i was lied to about everything from the beginning! first medical purposes only then I got a letter in the mail saying that I owed child support weeks and weeks later when the ones helping me with the child told me the reason they were offering me their help was because they could afford it and they seen what perdicament we were in and seen we needed the help..but yet ran and got families first which they blamed the child support on but according to them, they needed no financial help at all until we got back on our feet & I got healthy again. so they told me that the only way to get the child support to stop is to sign adoption papers... I had no one to help me left in my family that could or would. my mom passed before I even had kids, my dad was an alcoholic that was too preoccupied with his girlfriend's daughter and my grandparents were just too old and no one to help explain what was going on the whole time & also had a man of superior statute blackmail me for sexual favors&judgeTo
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The law presumes people understand and read what they signed. Otherwise it would be really hard to enforce contracts. All someone would have to say is "I didn't understand" or "I didn't read."
On the other hand if you have a mental disability that would prevent you from understanding - then you may have a defense. This is a tough burden because of the desire to have agreements enforceable,
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