Topic
Partition actions
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Legal Secrets
Representative Cases
Representative Cases and Clients of Simkin & Assoc. (This is a sample of some of the thousands of cases handled.) Quiet Title Prescriptive Easement Quiet Title unclear deed description Partition…
Virgin Islands Law Blog
Partition of Real Estate: What if One Owner Wants to Sell, But the Other Doesn’t?
By Tom Bolt
Partitioning real property (as opposed to personal, financial or intellectual property) is a fairly common process that occurs when a piece of real estate, such as a building, an estate…
Florida Probate & Trust Litigation Blog
Can a probate judge boot a recalcitrant cotenant out of homestead property?
Buettner v. Fass, --- So.3d ----, 2009 WL 3446478 (Fla. 4th DCA Oct 28, 2009) Why??!!, your clients will ask, do you have to start a new partition action in…
New Jersey Law Blog
Partition Actions When Property Co-Owners Can’t Agree
What happens when co-owners can't agree on how to share the ownership responsibilities of a piece of real estate? Perhaps it is a residence, a commercial property or vacant land…
Florida Probate & Trust Litigation Blog
1st DCA: Pending action to partition a joint tenancy with right of survivorship does NOT survive one joint tenant’s death
Mercurio v. Headrick, --- So.2d ----, 2008 WL 2434193 (Fla. 1st DCA Jun 18, 2008) The finality of death is the sort of thing most people can figure out pretty…