KENNEY, J.
SpaceSaver Systems, Inc., appellant, appeals the judgment of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County entered in favor of Carla Adam, appellee, in the amount of $255,868.20. Space-saver presents four questions for our review,1 which we have consolidated, rephrased and renumbered as follows:
1. Did the trial court err in finding that the Employment Agreement was not an at-will contract, but rather a for-cause lifetime contract?
2. Did the trial court err in awarding damages where compensation, in the form of either salary or commissions, was not set in the Employment Agreement?
For the reasons that follow, we hold that the Employment Agreement is neither an at-will contract nor a contract for lifetime employment, and that Adam, under the circumstances of the case, could only be terminated for-cause. We shall affirm the award of damages.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Nineteenth century Russian literary critic Ivan Kireevsky chided that, “[i]n the West, brothers make contracts with brothers.” Harold J. Berman, The Weightier Matters of the [427]*427Law, in Solzhenitsyn at Harvard (Ronald Berman ed., Ethics and Public Policy Center 1980). In this case, siblings and half-siblings saw the need to contract with each other, and the result was, in the words of the trial court, “a family fractured by business problems.” This Court is called upon to sort out the essential nature of those contracts, with SpaceSaver arguing that Adam’s employment contract was at-will, and Adam contending that it was a “lifetime contract” terminable only for-cause.
To be sure, lifetime employment contracts are like exotic, rare birds that have been identified and described in their occasional flights into Maryland, although they have rarely nested in our appellate jurisprudence. Their somewhat illusory nature was expressed by former University of Iowa football coach Hayden Fry when he said: “I thought I had a lifetime contract. Then I found out the other day that if I have a losing season, they’re going to declare me legally dead.” Ray Yasser, A Comprehensive Blueprint for the Reform Of Intercollegiate Athletics, 3 Marq. Sports L.J. 123, 148 (1993).
The background facts are not in dispute. SpaceSaver is a Washington, D.C. corporation with 53 full or part-time employees. Its corporate office is in Kensington, Maryland. SpaceSaver sells and installs tracked shelving and storage systems for business and governmental organizations with large storage needs. It was formed by Jack and Alice Schmidt in 1973. A Voting Trust Agreement gives each of the Schmidts’ three children, Carla Adam, Amy Hamilton and David Craig,2 a 1/3 capital stock interest in the company.3 Erik Kloster, a business advisor to SpaceSaver, was the original trustee. He appointed Adam, Hamilton, and Craig as additional trustees.4 In 1995, all three of the Schmidts’ chil[428]*428dren were employed by SpaceSaver in executive capacities and served on its board of directors.5
Controversies among them led to the 2006 drafting of identical (except for name and title) “Executive Employment Agreements” for each of the Schmidts’ three children, along with a “Stock Purchase Agreement.” These documents were drafted by Albert Ellentuck, Spacesaver’s corporate attorney.6
At issue in this case is Adam’s Employment Agreement, which she signed as the “Employee” and which Craig signed as the “President” on behalf of SpaceSaver. It includes the following provisions:
• Section 2.1 (“Compensation and Benefits: Base Salary”):
Employee shall be paid an annual base salary in an amount specified on Exhibit A attached hereto and made a part hereof....
• Section 3 (“Duties and Performance”):
The Employee acknowledges and agrees that she is being offered a position of employment by the Company with the understanding that the Employee possesses a unique set of skills, abilities, and experiences which will benefit the Company, and she agrees that her continued employment with the Company, whether during the term of this Employment Agreement or there[429]*429after, is contingent upon her successful performance of her duties as noted above, or in such other position to which she may be assigned.
Section 3.2 (“Specific Duties”):
The employee shall have the title of Managing Director, and shall have the following duties:
1) Create and manage a well balanced executive management team to ensure long term success and provide the ability for planning, organizing, control and leadership. Head towards setting company up for a transitional role of active management.
2) Contribute to company profitability through sales.
3) Ensure company profitability through accurate and effective management of Administration. Including] the training and development of staff, project planning, management, communication of status, and all other aspects.
4) Manage employee job performance and compliance of all company policies and procedures. Coach supervisors in the performance management process.
5) Provide active oversight, management and direction for sales, sales management and financial administration of the company.
6) Foster an environment of team orientation and individual ownership by establishing constructive relationships between employees. Inspire[ ] teamwork between employees, provides effective management, exhibit[] personal responsibility for team goals and attend[ ] bi-weekly management team meeting.
7) And all other duties as decided by the board of directors.
Section 4 (“Termination of Employment”):
Employee’s employment with the Company may be terminated, prior to the expiration of the term of this Employment Agreement,] in accordance with any of the following provisions:
[430]*4304.1 Termination by Employee. The employee may terminate her employment at any time during the course of this agreement by giving three (3) months notice in writing to the President of Company....
4.2 Termination by the Company For Cause. The Company may, at any time and without notice, terminate the Employee for “cause.” Termination by the Company of the Employee for “cause” shall include but not be limited to termination based on any of the following grounds: (a) insubordination or refusal to perform duties of employee’s position as directed by the President of Company and affirmed by a majority of the Directors; (b) fraud, misappropriation, embezzlement or acts of similar dishonesty; (c) conviction of a felony involving moral turpitude; (d) illegal use of drugs or excessive use of alcohol in the workplace; (e) intentional and willful misconduct that may subject the Company to criminal or civil liability; (f) breach of the Employee’s duty of loyalty, including the diversion or usurpation of corporate opportunities properly belonging to the Company; (g) willful disregard of Company policies and procedures; (h) material breach of any of the terms herein; and (i) material nonperformance or negligence in Employee’s performance of her duties.
4.3 Termination by Death or Disability. The Employee’s employment and rights to compensation under this Employment Agreement shall terminate if the Employee is unable to perform the duties of her position due to death, or disability as defined above....
• Section 6 of the Employment Agreement includes non-compete and non-solicitations clauses during and for two years after employment with SpaceSaver.
• And, section 8.2 (“General Provisions: Amendments and Termination: Entire Agreement”): “[t]his Agreement may not be amended or terminated except by a writing executed by all of the parties hereto.”
Article 4 (“Option to Purchase Shares”) of the Stock Purchase Agreement states:
[431]*431In the event any of the Shareholders has committed any Prohibited Act (as defined below) in relation to the Company (“Designated Shareholder”), the other Shareholders may elect to purchase all or a portion of the shares of the Designated Shareholder.... A prohibited Act is defined for these purposes as one or more of the following: (1) fraud, misappropriation, embezzlement or acts of similar dishonesty; (2) conviction of a felony involving moral turpitude; (3) illegal use of drugs or excessive use of alcohol in the workplace; (4) intentional and willful misconduct that may subject the Company to criminal or civil liability; (5) breach of duty of loyalty, including the diversion or usurpation of corporate opportunities properly belonging to the Company, (6) willful disregard of Company policies and procedures; (7) material breach of any of the terms herein, and (8) termination for whatever reason of said Shareholder’s employment with the Corporation.8
The Stock Purchase Agreement also includes provisions for the sale of stock upon the death or disability of a shareholder.
Craig resigned as President of SpaceSaver and as a director on January 19, 2007. On March 28, 2008, he sold half of his SpaceSaver stock to Adam, and the other half to Hamilton.9 [432]*432In February 2009, the board elected Hamilton as President and Chief Executive Officer of SpaceSaver, and Adam as Secretary and Treasurer. Adam’s Employment Agreement also lists her title as Managing Director of SpaceSaver— reporting to the President—while her amended complaint states that she is also Vice President of Special Projects.
Subsequently, a bitter dispute arose between Adam and Hamilton regarding their compensation, roles, and responsibilities within the company. On April 12, 2009, Hamilton sent a letter to Adam which:
• indicated that, at a February 20, 2009 meeting, the board had elected to remove Adam from her sales responsibilities;
• stated that Adam’s “duties and authority as Secretary and Treasurer ... are limited to the authority spelled out in the By-laws,” and that Hamilton had assigned Adam “no other duties”; and
• warned Adam that if she “fail[ed] to follow” these “directives,” Hamilton would “seek to have the Board reduce [her] compensation by 50%,” or “seek to have [her] terminated for cause as an employee of SpaceSaver----”
(Emphasis added).
On May 22, 2009, Adam wrote Hamilton claiming that, because Hamilton had committed various “Prohibited Acts” under the Stock Purchase Agreement—including the “misappropriation of funds,” “breach of duty of loyalty,” and “willful disregard of Company policies and procedures”—Adam was “exercising [her] right” under article 4 of the Stock Purchase Agreement to acquire Hamilton’s SpaceSaver stock.
On May 28, 2009, Hamilton wrote Adam denying Adam’s assertions, alleging that Adam had committed these “same actions,” and indicating her intent to acquire Adam’s Space-saver stock. The letter concluded: “please be advised that your employment by the Company is hereby terminated---Such termination of your employment also constitutes a prohibited act by you under article 4 of the Stock Purchase Agreement.”
[433]*433In June 2009, Adam brought legal action in a suit that resulted in an agreement whereby Adam received, based on her salary immediately preceding Hamilton’s May 28, 2009 letter, $10,000 per month in compensation from SpaceSaver.10
On January 28, 2010, Hamilton wrote to Adam that “Space-saver ... has made the decision to end your employment,” and SpaceSaver stopped paying Adam. On August 6, 2010, Hamilton wrote Adam “in regard to” the January 28, 2010 letter and any legal action potentially taken by Adam:
in the event it should be determined that your termination was invalid and that you are still an employee of the Company, please be advised that as an employee your salary was presumptively reduced to zero as of the date of termination and continues to be at such zero amount, pursuant to the authority of [the] employment agreement.
Adam filed a complaint on April 9, 2010 against SpaceSaver and Hamilton in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, and, on July 30, 2010, she filed an amended complaint. Count I (“Breach of Contract”) of the amended complaint alleges that Adam was terminated from SpaceSaver without cause11 in violation of the Employment Agreement and requests $450,000 in compensatory damages based on “lost salary, wages, com[434]*434missions and benefits” in addition to the rehiring of Adam, attorney’s fees and costs, “[a]nd for such other and further relief as the Court may deem appropriate.”
On June 27, 2011, Adam filed a Motion for Partial Summary Judgment contending that section 4 of the Employment Agreement established that she could only be terminated for-cause, and that section 8.2 of the Employment Agreement “makes clear that the term of employment is her life.”
SpaceSaver filed an Opposition to Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment in which, pointing to section 3 of the Employment Agreement, it denied that it guaranteed Adam lifetime employment, but that, even had it done so, the Employment Agreement lacked the “additional consideration” necessary for a lifetime employment contract. SpaceSaver also denied, pointing to the word “may” in section 4.2, that it was restricted to terminating Adam for-cause.
At a hearing on the motions for summary judgment, the parties, although disagreeing to its meaning, agreed that: (1) the Employment Agreement was “unambiguous,” (2) there were no material disputes of fact, and (3) the sole question before the court was whether the Employment Agreement was at-will or for-cause. Both motions for summary judgment were denied. In disagreeing that the Employment Agreement was “unambiguous,” the motions court pointed out that “a contract such as this which is silent as to the term [or duration] of the employment relationship is presumed to establish an at-will relationship, terminable for any reason or no reason at all,” which conflicted with the for-cause language of the Employment Agreement. The court stated that “extrinsic evidence” was necessary in order to discern the intent of the parties to the Employment Agreement.
After a three day trial, the trial court,12 referring to the testimony of Craig and Adam regarding their intentions as the [435]*435signers of the Employment Agreement,13 found that the Employment Agreement “modified” what had been formerly an “at-will relationship” so as to make it a “lifetime contract” and that Adam could only be unilaterally terminated for cause, death, or disability. According to the court, the for-cause provision would be superfluous if the Employment Agreement was at-will: “why in the world would you have to worry about [cause] if you had an at-will contract?” Finding a “clear breach” of the Employment Agreement, the court awarded Adam $255,868.20 in damages from the date of her termination through the date of trial—$198,000 from wages ($10,000 per month in salary x 16.5 months) and $57,868.20 in commissions.14 A judgment was entered in favor of Adam in the amount of $255,868.20.
DISCUSSION
Standard of Review
Under Rule 8-131(c), we review the judgment of the trial court “on the evidence” following a bench trial under the “clearly erroneous” standard. But, “[t]he interpretation of a written contract is a legal question subject to de novo review [436]*436by the appellate courts.” Calomiris v. Woods, 353 Md. 425, 447, 727 A.2d 358 (1999). The Court of Appeals has said:
Maryland courts follow the law of objective interpretation of contracts, giving effect to the clear terms of the contract regardless of what the parties to the contract may have believed those terms to mean:
“[A court is to] determine from the language of the agreement itself what a reasonable person in the position of the parties would have meant at the time it was effectuated. In addition, when the language of the contract is plain and unambiguous there is no room for construction, and a court must presume that the parties meant what they expressed. In these circumstances, the true test of what is meant is not what the parties to the contract intended it to mean, but what a reasonable person in the position of the parties would have thought it meant. Consequently, the clear and unambiguous language of an agreement will not give away to what the parties thought that the agreement meant or intended it to mean.”
Towson Univ. v. Conte, 384 Md. 68, 78, 862 A.2d 941 (2004) (quoting Calomiris, 353 Md. at 436, 727 A.2d 358). We review a trier of fact’s computation of damages for clear error. See State Highway Administration v. Transamerica Ins. Co., 278 Md. 690, 710-11, 367 A.2d 509 (1976).
Nature of the Employment Agreement
SpaceSaver contends that: (1) the trial court erred in finding that the Employment Agreement was for-cause,15 and (2) [437]*437the trial court erred in finding that the Employment Agreement provided lifetime employment.16
[438]*438Adam replies that a contract “without a term is not automatically at-will____” Rather, a contract “is presumed to be at-will, but that presumption will be over-ridden if the [contract] either specifies a termination date or specifies an event (i.e., misconduct, insubordination, etc.) that would give rise to termination.” When their respective arguments are distilled, both Adam and SpaceSaver recognize that this case centers on the interpretation of an employment contract between a corporation and one of its two equal beneficial shareholders that, as stated by SpaceSaver, has “no term of employment (suggesting at-will employment),” but also “a ‘for cause’ termination provision (suggesting employment that is not at-will)[.]”
This Court has said that employment contracts are either at-will or for-cause. See, e.g., Chai Management, Inc. v. Leibowitz, 50 Md.App. 504, 513, 439 A.2d 34 (1982); Shapiro v. Massengill, 105 Md.App. 743, 754, 661 A.2d 202 (1995). At-will employment contracts “may be terminated without cause by either party at any time.” Castiglione v. Johns Hopkins Hospital, 69 Md.App. 325, 338, 517 A.2d 786 (1986) (citations omitted).17 Employment contracts are “presumptively” at-will. Towson Univ., 384 Md. at 79, 862 A.2d 941.
The Court of Appeals has stated that (1) “a provision that permits termination only for cause,”18 or (2) “a contractual delineation of the length of the employment period,”19 [439]*439Towson Univ., 384 Md. at 80, 862 A.2d 941, will overcome the “heavy burden” of the at-will presumption, Mazaroff & Horn, Maryland Employment Law, § 3.02[1] (2d ed.2012), and “will create a [for-]cause employment relationship.... ” Towson Univ., 384 Md. at 80, 862 A.2d 941. This Court has said that the length of an employment period may be delineated by “a particular time or event terminating the employment relationship.” Shapiro, 105 Md.App. at 754, 661 A.2d 202 (citing Staggs v. Blue Cross of Maryland, Inc., 61 Md.App. 381, 388, 486 A.2d 798 (1985)).
Although Maryland’s appellate courts have said that a for-cause provision in a contract will “independently” establish that an employee is not at-will, Towson Univ., 384 Md. at 80, 862 A.2d 941, and that the omission of a durational term of employment20 establishes that an employee is at-will, Lubore v. RPM Assocs., 109 Md.App. 312, 327, 674 A.2d 547 (1996), it is important to recognize that such statements are simply “rule[s] of contract construction,” Samuel Williston & Richard A. Lord, A Treatise on the Law of Contracts, § 54:39 (4th ed.2001), and have not been followed “to a T.” In the end, the “controlling factor” in interpreting an employment contract is “the intent of the parties with respect to the terms of the contract[.]” Staggs, 61 Md.App. at 388, 486 A.2d 798 (quoting Hodge v. Evans Financial Corp., 707 F.2d 1566, 1568 (D.C.Cir.1983)).
In Staggs, for example, employees of Blue Cross did not have a “fixed contract or term of employment, although all [440]*440were covered by certain personnel policies adopted by Blue Cross, as set forth in a 1975 policy memorandum” that laid out grievance and termination procedures, and included a for-cause termination provision. Id. at 384, 486 A.2d 798. Several terminated employees brought suit for breach of contract, and the circuit court granted summary judgment in favor of Blue Cross. On appeal, this Court vacated the grant of summary judgment and remanded for a trial. Describing the employment relationship as one “of indefinite duration,” id. at 388, 486 A.2d 798, we stated that
provisions in ... policy statements that limit the employer’s discretion to terminate an indefinite employment or that set forth a required procedure for termination of such employment may, if properly expressed and communicated to the employee, become contractual undertakings by the employer that are enforceable by the employee.
Id. at 392, 486 A.2d 798 (emphasis added). Recognizing that the Staggs result was “to protect the legitimate expectations of employees who have justifiably relied on manual provisions precluding job termination except for cause,” we later stated that “the Staggs-type exception to the ‘at will’ doctrine” represents a “limited situation[ ]” in which “an ‘at will’ employee may not be discharged without cause.” Castiglione v. Johns Hopkins Hospital, 69 Md.App. 325, 338-41, 517 A.2d 786 (1986).
In addition, the parties may, despite the omission of a durational term of employment, come to a “mutual understanding” that an employee is not at-will. See Gill v. Computer Equipment Corp., 266 Md. 170, 179, 292 A.2d 54 (1972) (a hiring without a durational term of employment “is prima facie a hiring at will ... unless there [is] a mutual understanding” otherwise) (quoting McCullough Iron Co. v. Carpenter, 67 Md. 554, 557, 11 A. 176 (1887)). In Board of Street Comm’rs v. Williams, 96 Md. 232, 53 A. 923 (1903), “no definite number of years” was included in a statute governing employment contracts for police officers, id. at 238, 53 A. 923, but the statute did state that officers were “subject to removal for [441]*441cause.” Id. at 234, 53 A. 923. The Court of Appeals observed:
[R]emoval for cause is ... the only limitation fixed by the statute to their tenure. This being so an appointment is in legal effect an appointment during good behavior, or so long as the appointee is competent to discharge the duties of the office or efficient in the performance of them. The term is not, therefore, indefinite, nor is it determinable at the mere will of the appointing power.
Id. at 238, 53 A. 923 (emphasis added). In other words, an “appointment which can be terminated only for cause is not an appointment at will, but is, on the contrary, for a definite term[.]” Id. at 239, 53 A. 923.
In County Board of Education v. Cearfoss, 165 Md. 178, 166 A. 732 (1933), a teacher entered into a contract with the Board of Education of Washington County “for an undetermined number of years[.]” Id. at 180, 166 A. 732. After the first or second school year, either party could terminate the contract with adequate notice, but, otherwise, the contract continued “year to year, unless the teacher were suspended or dismissed” for “immorality, dishonesty, intemperance, insubordination, incompetency or willful neglect of duty.” Id. at 187, 166 A. 732.
The Court of Appeals held that the teacher had “a tenure[21] to continue until abrogated for sufficient cause.” Id. [442]*442at 188, 166 A. 732. The Court, in a follow-up case, stated that because of “the limitation upon the [County Board’s] official power to suspend or discharge a teacher,” it was “unable to classify these cases with those in which ... a private employer ... has an unrestricted power of rescission[.]” Board of Education v. Cearfoss, 168 Md. 29, 34, 176 A. 486 (1935).
Guided by Board of Street Comm’rs and County Board of Education, and the Court of Appeals’s statement that a for-cause provision “independently establish[es]” that an employee is not at-will, Towson Univ. v. Conte, 384 Md. 68, 80, 862 A.2d 941 (2004) (emphasis added), it is our view that the inclusion of the for-cause provision in Adam’s Employment Agreement is sufficient to overcome the presumption that, “when the length of the employment contract is not specified, the employee is deemed to be ... at-will[.]” Lubore v. RPM Assocs., 109 Md.App. 312, 327, 674 A.2d 547 (1996) (citing Yost v. Early, 87 Md.App. 364, 383, 589 A.2d 1291 (1991)). Board of Street Comm’rs teaches that such contracts, although lacking a typical durational term of employment, are, nonetheless, “for a definite term[.]” 96 Md. at 238-39, 53 A. 923.22
Such contracts are essentially continuous for-cause contracts that remain in effect until the employee is removed for-cause, or until the employee is no longer “competent to discharge the duties of the office or efficient in the performance of them.” Id.23 They are neither a Staggs-type subspe[443]*443cies of at-will contracts, nor are they “satisfaction” contracts in which the employer, notwithstanding the inclusion of a durational term of employment, “expressly reserves the right to terminate if it deems the employee’s performance unsatisfactory.” Ferris v. Polansky, 191 Md. 79, 85-86, 59 A.2d 749 (1948). The Ferris court explained:
In a contract where the employer agrees to employ another as long as the services are satisfactory, the employer has the right to terminate the contract and discharge the employee, whenever he, the employer, acting in good faith is actually dissatisfied with the employee’s work. This applies, even though the parties to the employment contract have stipulated that the contract shall be operative during a definite term, if it provides that the services are to be performed to the satisfaction of the employer.
Id.
24
Continuous for-cause contracts are also not contracts for “lifetime employment,” terminable for cause. See [444]*444Chisholm v. Hyattstown Volunteer Fire Dep’t, 115 Md.App. 58, 75 n. 6, 691 A.2d 776 (1997) (“[A] contract for lifetime employment may be terminated for cause at any time.”). Lifetime employment contracts, as a matter of law, “should be specific and definite, with little or no room for misunderstanding, even if they are not required to be in writing,” Yost, 87 Md.App. at 383, 589 A.2d 1291 (quoting Baltimore & O.R. Co. v. King, 168 Md. 142, 149, 176 A. 626 (1935)), for
[a] promise of permanent or lifetime[25] employment may be nothing more than a casual aside. Or, it may be purely aspirational. The employer may be expressing his hope that a valued employee will stay -with him forever. However, he may not have intended to create a binding agreement.
Greene v. Oliver Realty, Inc., 363 Pa.Super. 534, 555, 526 A.2d 1192 (1987). Thus, “such a contract” must contain “the terms as to work and salary.” Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. Co. v. Murray, 198 Md. 526, 534, 84 A.2d 870 (1951) (citations omitted).26 This is so even when the employee is a co-founder of the business.27
[445]*445To be sure, “an employment agreement can be negotiated for the life of the employee,” but only “in very rare circumstances.” Mazaroff & Horn, Maryland Employment Law, § 3.02 (2d ed.2012). “[C]ourts have shown a marked reluctance to enforce contracts for life employment.” Samuel Williston & Richard A. Lord, A Treatise on the Law of Contracts, § 54:39 (4th ed.2001). That is true even when, for example, the contract expressly states that it is “permanent” or “for life.” See J. Wilson Parker, At-Will Employment and the Common Law: A Modest Proposal to De-Marginalize Employment Law, 81 Iowa L.Rev. 347, 380 n. 167 (1995) (“Contracts for ‘permanent’ or ‘lifetime’ employment are typically construed to indicate merely that the parties intended that this was to be a steady job, as opposed to casual or temporary employment.”); Aberman v. Malden Mills Industries, Inc., 414 N.W.2d 769, 771 (Minn.Ct.App.1987) (“Absent an additional express or implied stipulation of duration of employment, the following terms indicate only an at-will contract: ‘permanent employment,’ ‘life employment,’ and ‘as long as the employee chooses.’ ”).
Judicial reluctance to find and enforce lifetime contracts stems from the serious consequences of such agreements. Lifetime employment, if binding the employee, may impact his “chances of improving his condition,” Pitcher v. United Oil & Gas Syndicate, 174 La. 66, 139 So. 760, 761 (1932), and prevent him from “quitting] at any time without being liable for breach of contract damages[.]” Lubore v. RPM Assocs., 109 Md.App. 312, 328, 674 A.2d 547 (1996); see 60 A.L.R.3d 226, § 2a (“[T]the majority of courts appear to take the position that a contract for permanent or lifetime [446]*446employment remains optional with the employee, and that he may, therefore, terminate it at any time.”). On the other hand, binding the employer to “provide a job for so long as the employee wishes to continue” without “imposing a] corresponding obligation upon the employee,” Williston & Lord, § 54:39, is a “heavy burden to place upon an employer’s shoulders.” Greene v. Oliver Realty, Inc., 363 Pa.Super. 534, 555, 526 A.2d 1192 (1987). A lifetime employment contract for a high level employee, moreover, is “generally inconsistent with corporate law because such a contract denigrates the legal rights of stockholders to change the management of a corporation.” Mazaroff & Horn, § 3.02[5]; see Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. Co. v. Murray, 198 Md. 526, 531, 84 A.2d 870 (1951) (“The law contemplates the right of stockholders to change the management of the affairs of their corporation periodically by providing for the election of a board of directors. If corporate officers could enter into contracts giving persons of their selection employment for life, the directors might be deprived of their authority.”). Here, of course, employees under the Employment Agreements were the beneficial holders of all the stock and directors of the corporation.
According to Williston & Lord, a lifetime employment contract would ordinarily also require “special” or “additional” consideration to be valid, § 54:39, such as “where the employee affords the employer a substantial benefit other than the services that the employee was hired to perform, or where the employee undergoes substantial additional hardship other than the services that he or she was hired to perform.” Id. § 54:40; see also 60 A.L.R.3d 226, § 2a (“[M]any courts take the position that a contract of employment purporting to be permanent in nature or for life is valid and enforceable when it is supported by consideration additional to services.”).
Maryland’s appellate courts have not decided that a contract for lifetime employment is valid if supported by additional consideration. See Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. Co., 198 Md. at 533, 84 A.2d 870 (“We assume, without deciding, that where an employee has given consideration in addition to the services [447]*447incident to the employment, a contract for permanent or life employment is valid....”). Nor have they decided exactly what additional consideration might suffice. See id. at 533, 84 A.2d 870 (“the mere giving up of a job, business or profession by one who decides to accept a contract for alleged life employment” would not suffice); Pullman Co. v. Ray, 201 Md. 268, 279, 94 A.2d 266 (1953) (“the release of a claim for damages” in exchange for life employment offered by someone with authority to make the offer would presumably suffice).28
But, because we are persuaded, based on the caselaw and the contract’s plain language, that the Employment Agreement is effectively a continuous contract terminable for-cause,29 rather than a lifetime contract, we need not decide [448]*448whether any additional consideration advanced by Adam would be sufficient to justify a lifetime contract.30
In sum, the Employment Agreement, in our view, is not ambiguous; it is a for-cause contract that is of continuous duration, but it is not a lifetime contract. Thus, we affirm in-[449]*449part and reverse in-part the trial court’s interpretation of the Employment Agreement.31
Damages: Salary & Commission
SpaceSaver alleges: (1) the trial court erred in awarding damages based on a $120,000 per year salary where the Employment Agreement “contains no salary provision,” and “the record below contains no evidence that the parties ever agreed to a salary for Adam,” and thus “the trial court stated no legally cognizable basis to award damages”; and (2) the trial court erred in awarding commissions where Adam “sued only on the” Employment Agreement, “which does not provide any right to commissions.” (Emphasis added).
Adam, pointing to the testimony of Ellentuck that the parties agreed upon a salary of $120,000, states that “[t]he record negates [Spacesaver’s] contention” that there was “no evidence to support the trial court’s finding of an agreement between the parties as to ... an annual salary for [Adam] of $120,000 per year.” In further response, she refers us to the amended complaint, which states that she is seeking compensatory damages based on “lost salary, wages, commissions and benefits.” (Emphasis added). She also cites the testimony of Ellentuck and Kloster as “demonstrating] that [she] had earned commissions as an employee of’ SpaceSaver.
In reviewing the trial court’s calculation of damages under the clearly erroneous standard, “[t]he appellate court must consider evidence produced at the trial in a light most favorable to the prevailing party and if substantial evidence was presented to support the trial court’s determination, it is not clearly erroneous and cannot be disturbed.” Clickner v. [450]*450Magothy River Ass’n, 424 Md. 253, 266, 35 A.3d 464 (2012) (quoting Ryan v. Thurston, 276 Md. 390, 392, 347 A.2d 834 (1975)). The Court of Appeals has also said that “[i]f there is any competent material evidence to support the factual findings of the trial court, those findings cannot be held to be clearly erroneous.” YIVO Inst. for Jewish Research v. Zaleski, 386 Md. 654, 663, 874 A.2d 411 (2005) (citation omitted) (emphasis added).
The trial court stated that, based on “the testimony” and Plaintiffs Exhibit 2,32 Adam’s annual salary was $120,000. In arriving at $198,000 in salary owed to Adam, the court calculated that she was owed $108,00 for work in 2010, and $90,000 for work in 2011. The court also stated, based on Adam’s testimony, “that she’s proven by a preponderance of the evidence that she’s entitled to certain commissions,” and, moreover, that “Hamilton agreed in her testimony that Ms. Adam was due commissions.”
[451]*451To be sure, there was conflicting testimony as to Adam’s compensation. But Plaintiffs Exhibit 2, which specifically puts Adam’s compensation at $120,000 and states that “she will be compensated for sales already made,” is sufficient to persuade us that the trial court was not clearly erroneous in calculating Adam’s damages under the amended complaint, which specifically asks for damages based on salary and commissions.
JUDGMENT OF THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY AFFIRMED. COSTS TO BE SPLIT EQUALLY BETWEEN THE PARTIES.
7. Exhibit A was never created.