Signed documents will definitely trump in this matter. One cannot sign a contract - realize later they made a mistake and then claim they made a poor decision based on threats with any real success in court - otherwise contracts would be entirely pointless in practice.
Deidre is an interested party in this case and it can be assumed her and Carter have come to some sort of agreement moving forward - just because she is doing the heavy lifting on the legal side right now does not mean she is in the driver's seat.
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