As mortgage loan transactions continue to become increasingly complex, lenders often worry about the remedies they have if borrowers fail to live up to their obligations.

Starting July 1, New Mexico consumers will see a 6% reduction in basic premium rates for title insurance.

Mary Shea owned a house in Georgia and listed it for sale. She received and accepted an offer to purchase from the defendant which provided that “30% OF PURCHASE PRICE [WAS] TO BE PAID WITH TROPTIONS.GOLD CRYPTOCURRENCY.” She alleged that she believed she would be able to immediately convert the cryptocurrency into cash.

The profits from flipped houses are already taxed in California, which has the highest state income tax in the U.S. — as much as 12.3 percent. The proposed California Housing Speculation Act, AB 1771, would add the 25 percent tax to the existing capital gains levy on houses sold within three year

It was five decades ago, back in 1970, that the Freak Power platform and Hunter S. Thompson proposed changing the name of Aspen to “Fat City.” Maybe, given the dynamics of the day, we should call it “Flip Town.”

Recently, Certified Title Corporation (“Certified Title”) confirmed that certain consumer data in the company’s possession was compromised as the result of a ransomware attack on the company’s cloud hosting services provider.

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Twenty years ago, the Colorado Supreme Court reinstated the rights to graze livestock, and to collect firewood and timber. Now, for the first time, a judge is defining how those rights may be carried out — and overseen.

A trespass by way of encroachment occurs when a building, structure, or other “thing” (as opposed to person or animal), goes beyond the boundaries of the owner’s land onto adjoining land without the permission or consent of the adjoining landowner.

Two of the defendants in a lawsuit by a Pickaway County-based company against 22 residents of a Rockbridge subdivision have asked a judge to dismiss the company’s claims against them. In a motion for dismissal filed March 16 in Hocking County Common Pleas Court, they allege that the lawsuit filed on Jan. 3 by Holiday Industries, Inc. against residents of The Cliffs subdivision is “an attempt to scare” property owners in the subdivision, so they will not assert any legal interest in a piece of property within the subdivision that the company wants to sell.

Recently, a unanimous panel of the United States Circuit Court for the Fourth Circuit issued an unpublished opinion shooting down a borrower’s claim that the substitute trustee of his deed of trust breached its fiduciary duties by not stopping a foreclosure sale based on a dispute about amounts owing to the lender until after the borrower retained counsel and filed suit.

The Texas Supreme Court recently held that an attorney who fell victim to a scam and wired monies before a check cleared could not sustain a breach of contract claim against the bank based on the bank’s wire transfer form. See Cadence Bank, N.A. v. Elizondo, 2022 Tex. LEXIS 263 (2022). In 2014, a party asked an attorney to help with a legal matter. Upon the attorney’s agreement to represent the party, the party informed the attorney that he had settled with the adversary and that the adversary would be sending a cashier’s check.

Illinois adopted the Transfer on Death Instrument Act several years ago. The law allowed owners of residential property to sign and record a transfer on death instrument (TODI), but it only worked for residential property. A TODI works much like a POD (pay on death) or TOD (transfer on death) bank or brokerage account. The named beneficiary of the account doesn’t have any interest in the account until the owner’s death. At death, the account immediately passes to the beneficiary simply by presenting the owner’s death certificate.

For all the mystery surrounding the “dark web,” it’s actually pretty easy to access if you have the right software, and we can show you how. But before we get to the walkthrough, a word of warning to curious minds looking into the dark web for the first time: The place can be dangerous.

It has been a year since I have reported on a state adopting the duty of technology competence for lawyers, but now there is another: Hawaiʻi, bringing the total number of states that have adopted the duty to 40.

The use of conflict resources to finance wars is expanding into new commodities — with much more severe consequences. An example is the successful trafficking in conflict diamonds — colloquially known as blood diamonds — that’s led to the use of other landscape-based resources to finance armed conflict. Conflict timber, oil, minerals and wildlife now also contribute to war financing, with innovation ongoing.

A family dispute over a piece of land in the town of Meadows that started in 2010 came before provincial court in Corner Brook on Tuesday, March 22, as one of the parties attempted to lay criminal charges in the matter.

Who took Margaret Hailey's money?

That is the $52,000 dollar question at the centre of a property sale that left an elderly couple without their cash for months on end and the victims of a potential hacking attack.

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Property for sale in Space, you know – Mars, the Moon, Uranus and on other floating celestial bodies - is now a thing. Ever since Elon Musk said he's going to take us there, forward thinkers and planners are getting ready. Today, My State MLS, a nationwide multiple listing service for earthbound real estate, is proud to announce My Space MLS, a space-wide multiple listing service for advertising space land for sale.

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The “pizza principle,” a mainstay of New York economics for more than four decades, states that a slice of cheese pizza will always be the same price as a subway ride. The rule has largely held true since first conjectured in the New York Times in 1980, with any increase in pizza prices tending to predict a matching hike in public-transit fares..

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The fugitive flamingo that escaped from a Kansas zoo nearly 17 years ago has (once again) been spotted on the Texas coast, parks and wildlife officials say. Flamingo No. 492 broke free from the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita alongside another African flamingo during an evening storm on June 27, 2005, the Wichita Eagle reported.

Letters of Note is a blog that features historically significant, unusual, or sometimes amusing letters exchanged between people. A few days ago, it shared the funny correspondence between Justin Lee of Auckland, New Zealand and the national police force. Lee received a ticket for speeding. When was he driving 100 KPH on a public road? On June 23, 1974. That was also, coincidentally, the date of his birth.