Real Estate & Business Attorneys
I love Federal Court Judges. Attached are actual court orders including an order striking “dreck”, and an Oklahoma District Court Judge lamenting that to attorneys acted as “schmucks” and the Court stated “This case makes me lament the demise of dueling.” (Note the...
What comes out of mouths of babes and lawyers sometimes is special!
It’s sad but this is common. Frivolous lawsuits do not help the legal system.
This provides a simple way to transfer California real estate at death without having to go through California probate. (Probate Code §5600, et seq.) The way to look at this is it is a “Transfer-On-Death Deed ” NOT a transfer during life deed. It only applies to...
The Department of Business Oversight maintains a handy list of names of banks in California and where to serve them. Go to http://www.dbo.ca.gov/Laws_&_Regs/legislation/service_of_legal_process/
Beneficiaries of a trust lost a challenge to the sale of trust property by the trustee. The trial court ordered them to pay the trust’s attorney fees and costs, making the beneficiaries personally liable. The Court of Appeal affirmed the award of attorney fees, but...
A homeowner who is an attorney accused a bank of violating Civil Code § 2923.6, subdivision (c) by foreclosing while his loan modification application was pending. The attorney did not pay his mortgage for eight years. The attorney sued the bank, and the bank’s...
While Code of Civil Procedure § 1717a bars attorneys fees if the cause of action is on a contract, look to Santisas v. Goodin (1998) 17 Cal.4th 599.In Santisas, attorney fees were awarded on a tort claim because the home purchase agreement attorney fee provision...
After the initial Statement of Information is filed within 90 days of forming the entity, a corporation (‘Inc.”) in California must file a Statement of Information form EVERY year Corps.C. § 1502(a)).A limited liability corporation (“LLC”) files EVERY OTHER YEAR...
Medical marijuana protection is unlikely under California fair housing laws. In Ross v. Ragingwire (2008) 42 Cal. 4th 920, the California Supreme Court held that the FEHA does not protect a fired employee who failed a drug test even though he was also a qualified...