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Dangers with Real Estate Beneficiary Deeds Prompting Partition Actions Beneficiary Deeds are useful tools in estate planning. A Beneficiary Deed is provided for by Arizona Revised Statutes 33-405. Simply...
Closing a Shopping Center Donation to a Charity Combined with a Trade (1031 Exchange) of out of State Commercial Property Jeffrey M. Neff just completed a complex real estate transaction for a charity....
Our firm just encountered a sad situation with a parent trying to transfer property to a child. The parent owned a house in trust. She deeded the property to her son. The deed provided that the property...
Just about everyone knows that a deed, deed of trust and some other legal documents need to be notarized. Under Arizona law a notary simply attests to the fact that the correct person signed the document...
Everybody knows that law can be technical. The instrument you use defines your rights! I just had a case for an out of state lender. The lender had decided it would loan money on real property using a...
A Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure sounds deceptively simple: The borrower simply gives the lender a deed and the lender gets the property! Sounds simple, right? Well, there are severe pitfalls a few of which...
Beneficiary Deeds are useful tools in estate planning. A Beneficiary Deed is provided for by Arizona Revised Statutes 33-405. Simply put, it means that real property passes automatically at death to the...
People mean different things by the term “foreclosure.” The common meaning is the process of a lender declaring a default on an obligation secured by real property and moving to reclaim the property. But...
In Arizona, a lender on real estate has the option of using a Deed of Trust to secure the loan. Deeds of Trust were first adopted in Arizona in 1971. The Deed of Trust: Arizona’s Alternative to the Real...
While the government has a right to take private property for public use in Arizona and anywhere in the U.S., landowners also have the right to make a formal objection against eminent domain. There are...
The law surrounding wills, trusts, powers of attorney and estate planning dates back centuries. Over this period of time, rules have been established both by law and the courts to prevent fraud that aren't...
Arizona law generally prohibits lenders from suing borrower for loans used to pay for residential real property in Arizona. But what amounts are included? The Arizona Court of Appeals in First Financial...
Many tourist destinations in the United States have greatly restricted or completely banned homeowners from renting their properties to vacationers. This has become a popular trend through sharing economy...
Dangers with Real Estate Beneficiary Deeds Prompting Partition Actions Beneficiary Deeds are useful tools in estate planning. A Beneficiary Deed is provided for by Arizona Revised Statutes 33-405. Simply...