Legal Research

Real Estate Bust Yields Lawsuit Boom?
Sharing virtual space today with reports of the Fed's emergency interest rate cut, a NYT article details one woman's quest to make her realtor pay the price of an ill-considered real estate purchase...

Ok so the Patriots WON Again...Now, it's Real Estate Season!!
Alright I'm posting this pre-Super Bowl so if it helps you win $$ here's my address...

GAO: Improving Rental Real Estate Tax Compliance
The Government Accountability Office yesterday released Actions That Could Improve Rental Real Estate Reporting Compliance (GAO-08-956): At least an estimated 53% of individual taxpayers with rental real estate misreported their rental real estate activities for tax year 2001, resulting in...

Manatt nabs O'Melveny real estate partner
Real estate lawyer Steve Edwards joined Manatt Phelps's Orange County office as of counsel...

Real Estate Overcharges: Not a New Problem
Boston, MA: With the recent news coverage about problems in the housing industry, it might seem as though problems with real estate overcharges are a new issue...

Call for Papers "Real Estate Transactions in Troubled Times"
The American Association of Law Schools is having its 2009 Annual Meeting in January in San Diego...

Real Estate Brokers
Questions home sellers should ask potential brokers

Real Estate Brokers
The role brokersplay

Estate Planning
Documents: durable power of attorney, living will, letter of instruction, and insurance trust

My exwife got a judgement aganst me. years latter i remarried and bought a home i told my new wife that I was not sure about owning real property so soon . our realtor told us I could file a quick claim deed. i sign it t
A quick claim deed has "No warranties" to anything. Your real estate a...

Can I sue the executor of my fathers estate?
Get a lawyer. Not one you pay by the hour - a contingency based attorney. If he ...

What are my odds of winning in court, If I sue a home warranty company for fraud?
This is not an unusual situation. Many of these types of "warranty" products are...

My father and mother died with a will. The will states that the family house be sold and any money left be divided equally among the sibling. The house as a loan against it for $200.000. The executor of the estate (my si
Contest the will, this should lock things up in probate and prevent her from doi...

One of the supervisor's at my job has been constantly mentioning to other supervisor's my every move and directed each of the supervisorss to watch me closely. A couple of months ago the same supervisor persuaded her bos
I would work at a different mcdonalds...

Wrestler Estate
Family of pro wrestler settle multi million dollar estate lawsuit.

Estate of Seth Tobias
$25 million estate to be split as part of settlement.

Gulf War Syndrome
Panel Confirms it's Real, and Identifies Causes

Space Heaters
Vornado Air Circulation Systems Inc. agrees to $500,000 defective product CPSC fine.

Killer Heir
Estate of Fred Keller pays $40 million settlement.