George

The negotiation process that transpires before an agreement is signed allows for a lot of give and take and trade offs. Whether a contract is an adhesion contract (one offered on a take it or leave it basis between parties of unequal bargaining power) depends on how you market your business. Until you agree to it the proposed terms of a contract are nothing more than an offer. It is not yet cast in stone. You do not have to accept it, and you are certainly free to make a counter offer. If you find a particular term of the offer to be burdensome, you can negotiate it out of the contract. If the offeror will not remove the term you can seek something of benefit to you in return (e.g. timely payment within two weeks or 30 days or a guaranty of work volume). If the offeror fails to perform on either the timely payment of guaranty of volume, he has breached the contract, and you are dischaged from your obligation to perform any further under the contract.

I am having some difficulty seeing the problem with which you are concerned. The terms of the contract that you have discribed involve termination of services. If the client is performing his end of the agreement, you will not want to terminate them. If you are considering terminating a client there must be a reason for it. If the reason is that the client is not performing his contractual obligations, you are off the hook, and the notice requirements become unimportant.