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Real Estate

Disclosure of Material Facts and Hidden Defects
When a buyer is looking for a dream home, the last thing he or she expects to find is a material defect that will change the dream into a nightmare. To avoid that scenario, a real estate agent has an obligation to make a full and timely disclosure of all known facts that are relevant or material to the condition and characteristics of the property under consideration. More...
Judgment Liens against Property
Once a court reaches a determination that one party owes another party money, the court issues a judgment. A judgment, quite simply, constitutes a judicial determination that one party owes another party money and nothing more. Once a judgment creditor obtains such a judgment, the judgment creditor must undertake efforts to collect the money that is owed by the judgment debtor. More...
Intestate Succession
When a person dies with a will, the person is said to have died "testate." If a person dies without a will, the person is said to have died "intestate." In the case of an intestate person, the law of intestate succession governs the distribution of the person's property following the person's death. More...
Square Footage of a Home
In almost every sale listing for a home, there is some indication of the square footage of the home. How is the square footage of a home determined? More...
Like-Kind Exchanges
Internal Revenue Code § 1031 provides the procedure for a little-used tax shelter known as a like-kind exchange. In essence, §1031 allows the exchange of business or investment property for other business or investment property of like-kind, with tax-deferral benefits. More...

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