Real Estate & Business Attorneys
While most rental properties in California are NOT under rent control, many cities have rent control ordinances that state two or more dwelling units, including condos, on a lot if built before a certain date are under rent control. For example, Los Angeles’s cut off...
A buyer purchasing after a foreclosure sale, can serve a notice to quit to a tenant/former owner before recording the deed, e.g. before title is “perfected”. Citing Code of Civil Procedure § 1161a and U.S. Financial, L.P. v. McLitus (2016) 6 Cal.App.5th Supp. 1, the...
Here is aa page from an actual trial showing how lawyers make the simplest thing confusing. Click here: Cross Exam about the pipe
I have a feeling the Judge was not really sympathetic to the Arkansas based Wal-Mart corporate party defendant. Go Texas Longhorns!!! Click here for the actual Court Order: Federal Judge Ruling on TexArkana Depositioni
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.
I love Chicago Title (even if it and many other title companies are all owned by the same conglomerate Fidelity Title!). Here is a link for many basic real property related forms. http://www.chicagotitlela.com/blank_documents.html Don’t forget, its not the form, but...
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/