What a terrible situation! Your contract is a legal, binding document that will hold up in a court of law. If you have all your papers in order you will probably win the case. But do you want to go to court or call it quits and move on and fill the space with a better family? Only you can answer that question.

I just terminated a client and they owed me for one week of the two week termination notice but they simply emailed me and told me that they would not be returning for the final two weeks and they would not be paying me. I could have taken them to court for that small amount of money and won because my contract is legal and binding. But I was just so happy they were gone and I didn't have to go through 2 weeks of stress with them after the bad termination confrontation.

Do you see what I'm saying? Weigh your options and do what's best for you.