Category Archives: Real Estate Law

Real Estate Law – What to do when someone wants to back out of the sale of a house

With the real estate market making a slow but steady recovery, we have started to get questions we have not heard since 2006: questions about home sellers who want to back out of sales contract.  Here is a short explainer … Continue reading

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Real Estate Law – What was that rule against perpetuities in the film The Descendants?

If you were paying close attention while watching the excellent new film, The Descendants, with George Clooney, you may have wondered what the rule against perpetuities was and why it was important to a certain piece of real property in the … Continue reading

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Real Estate Law – Business Law – McCourt trial shows value of discovery

In our business and real estate cases, it is not uncommon to hear that certain documents have been forged or altered or are incomplete.  When this happens it is important in pretrial discovery to inspect the original of such documents, … Continue reading

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