If you own a piece of land, then it may be possible for someone who’s staked a claim to it to acquire a valid title under adverse possession laws. The person who has claimed such rights to the property must have been utilizing it for a significant period of time. A person wishing to take […]
Melbourne Legal Blog
Owning a condo in Florida comes with many perks. However, it can also come with a challenge: dealing with the condominium association. On the flip side, being a member of the board can be frustrating thanks to problematic owners. Both parties play important roles that can sometimes conflict with each other. What starts out as […]
When two parties enter into a binding and lawful contract and one party fails to uphold their end of the bargain, the other party may have the ability to pursue a legal claim for damages. In cases where the contact involved a loan or regular payments to be made by one party, if the other […]
The developers of a proposed residential community that could have brought as many as 2,500 apartments or condos to the Town Center area of Boca Raton, Florida, have sued the city. The proposer, a real estate and management firm, is seeking $137.6 million in damages. The plaintiff contends that the City Council’s vote to reject […]
A Florida woman is in a tussle with her neighborhood’s homeowners association over the butterfly garden in her front yard. The woman, from Pensacola, is a retired teacher who said she has had a butterfly garden in her front yard for about six years. She told a local TV station that she nurtures caterpillars and […]
You sign a noncompete agreement when joining a company, knowing that it limits the scope of your work outside of that company but also thinking that you are probably never going to leave anyway. This is a dream job. Then the company gets sold to another company. After the acquisition, it’s not a dream for […]
Trust litigation may erupt when the rights to a trust are not clear. An individual or a company, for example, could find that the language of the trust is ambiguous to the degree that its intentions are unclear — or because one party is doggedly intent on interpreting the trust in an inappropriate manner. At […]
A trustee is required to do three primary things, which include managing, distributing and filing taxes on the assets contained within the trust. When these obligations will kick in is largely contingent upon the type of trust that its owner has set up. There are other responsibilities that trustees are legally mandated to carry out […]
A handshake deal often feels like a good idea when it is proposed. You know the other person. You both want to work together. It seems like a great partnership. If anything, you worry about coming off as insulting if you demand that the two of you sit down and write out a contract. But […]
Many people fall victim to Ponzi schemes every year. They rarely work out for the perpetrator, as one Florida man discovered when police arrested him for conducting an elaborate case of fraud. Older individuals are typically targets of these schemes because perpetrators believe that they can more easily convince seniors to give them money. It is […]
