If you’re considering appealing your property taxes, you need to understand that your property taxes cannot be reduced directly. Instead, the way your taxes are reduced is by reducing the value at which your property is assessed. What this means is that you, as a taxpayer, have the burden to prove that the assessed value…
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Given the recent economic climate, many of the transaction we are working on today are what are called “short sales.” A short sale is a sale of real estate in which the purchase price is not sufficient to pay off the mortgages on the property. In this kind of situation, a negotiation must take place…
A real estate transaction begins with the signing of the contract. The real estate contract is typically long and confusing. The attorney will sit down and meet with the client and will explain the pros and cons of each clause of the contract. Afterwards, we will come to either agree with a contract or disagree.…
Assuming the parties to a divorce action are able to reach a resolution of their issue, such resolution is usually written upon a document celled a Property Settlement Agreement. A Property Settlement Agreement usually covers each and every issue that the parties have reached resolution on, signed by the parties, and becomes a binding contract…
Either before or after the filing a complaint, parties to a divorce action are encouraged to undergo a process called Mediation. Mediation is an informal procedure where the parties, with or without their attorneys, sit before an independent third party called Mediator and discuss the situation in order to see whether or not they can…
