United States: Conveyancing

It’s an uncomfortable topic, but it also creates immediate legal and financial questions for surviving family members, sellers, lenders, and real estate professionals.

Recent amendments to Mass. R. Prof. C. 1.15 have significantly changed how Massachusetts law yers must handle unclaimed and unidentified funds held in IOLTA accounts.

The Texas Supreme Court has overturned the "gist" rule used by lower courts to dismiss cases involving out-of-state property, establishing that Texas courts can exercise jurisdiction over contractual disputes and deed reformation matters regardless of property location. This landmark decision clarifies the distinction between in personam and in rem suits, potentially opening Texas courts to a broader range of extraterritorial real estate disputes. The ruling in Braxton Minerals III, LLC v. Bauer provides cr

In TIAA Global Investments LLC, et al. v. One Astoria Square, LLC, et al., Index No. 652907/2012, an owner and purchaser of a large multi-unit building complex sued the seller for alleged fraud and intentional misrepresentation.

On occasion, a ''straight'' sale (a Property Sale) of real property (effectuated through a deed by the owner of the property to the purchaser) may morph into a sale of equity interests...

Specific performance is a remedy in which a Court requires a party to perform a particular act, more often than not what is set in a contract.

A secured party obtained relief from the automatic stay to allow the trustee under a deed of trust to sell a farm.

A Commonwealth Court ruling earlier this month, in City of Philadelphia v. Manu, 2013 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 363, may have a significant effect on the City’s procedures in tax sales, and the success of owners and lienholders in setting aside or staying such sales if statutory requirements are not followed.

In a recent case, the Appellate Division ruled that a 2001 amendment to the New Jersey Spill Act had essentially nullified a long line of cases which had found that persons who had purchased already-contaminated land were not liable for cleanup costs under the Spill Act.