The wife is not liable for credit card debt she did not contract to pay by being on the card or using the card. She may be liable if the charges were for something the law calls necessaries, like medical care, food, clothing, and other needs of her spouse, but that is liability for the necessary... View More

It is more complex than that, but could easily have been resolved if specified in a proper Will. If the reason you were a co-tenant on the box was for the convenience of your mother, then the box belongs to the estate. Basically, the law interprets your role as one of a trustee of something called... View More

In DC, you file a lis pendens. The law changed a number of years ago, and the lawsuit, itself, is not a lien. It is a great idea ti have counsel assist in this.

In a commercial lease (and, to a lesser extent, in a residential lease) the answer starts with a lease review. Without reading the responsibilities of the landlord and the tenant memorialized in the lease, there is no possible accurate answer. Contrary to popular belief, commercial leases are not... View More

Appraisals are often inaccurate or, more accurately, a matter of opinion. Unless you have an agreement to the contrary, get a second appraisal and see if it lands in the same place. Agree in advance that if the two appraisals are within x% of each other, you'll average the two appraisals. If... View More

To raise a successful defense of adverse possession, the defendant must show that he POSSESSED the land ADVERSELY, OPENLY, and CONTINUOUSLY in a manner HOSTILE to the record landowner's interests for the prescribed period. If you don't possess, the defense will be difficult to maintain.... View More

First of all, who is on the mortgage loan or the deed of trust isn't relevant. The incomplete and unsigned will is probably irrelevant, though Virginia has some holographic will law that might apply. What generally matters is the deed. If the deed was joint tenants with right of survivorship... View More

There is no need for a real estate broker, though a real estate broker could help. Brokers market and sell property, so the commissions they earn are based on the risks and expenses of marketing a property. You don't need those services, and the cost of contracting and closing a sale can be... View More

The question is barely in English, and the description of the defense of adverse possession isn’t vaguely close to the law. If you have occupied a property openly adversely continuously and hostilely for more than the time in the statute of limitations, you may assert —preferably competently,... View More

The plat is merely a resource. Review the deeds or get a lawyer to help.

As I understand the facts, your father-in-law passed in 2013, and the personalty in the estate was divided among the heirs and the estate closed. Around 2015, you and your husband bought the house and its contents, and they belonged to him or both of you. Your husband passed in 2020, and now his... View More

Your description requires a series of follow-up questions, but other than the car registration, I don't see anything that is likely to excite a prosecutor. There may well be a question of undue influence or competence at the time she signed everything over to him, but you will likely need to... View More

If the property is in Maryland, you should not be able to close unless the probate resolved the deed. Without a review of the deed and the sequence of weddings, purchases, and deaths, it is impossible to define what needs to be done, but many lawyers cover both probate and real estate, and it... View More

Government land isn’t subject to adverse possession.

The answer will depend on whether your possession was open, adverse, continuous, and hostile for the right number of those 23 years. Mowing someone else’s lawn isn’t very hostile, but fencing it certainly might be. I suggest you get a consult with a real estate lawyer to review the facts.

Citing Maryland Code defining an adverse possession is not an argument explaining how that Code section supports your position. The judge isn't your lawyer. You are. It sounds like your motion to reconsider is denied, so your next step is a timely appeal and seeking a stay of the eviction. If... View More

I think you need a lawyer to review the situation, but the law requires leases to be in writing. Sometimes, things that don't look like a lease, such as an exchange of written emails or even texts followed by written checks might be a writing. And, if no problem ever arises, then it... View More

Adverse possession is a defense. It is not a claim. I have used it before by flipping claims and defenses using techniques like a petition to quiet title or a complaint for declaratory judgment, but it is generally a defense that gets asserted to block a summary dispossession. In other words, it... View More

The cheaper answer is to return to the lawyer who handled your chapter 7 and hope he still has the file. so he can remind the lender of the cram down. If this was a DIY or the lawyer is inaccessible or unavailable, someone needs to look up the file at court, get the cram down order, and start... View More

You may have both a latent defect and a misrepresentation cause of action if the defect was latent and the seller knew and lied in the disclosure. The case may involve attorneys fees and treble damages.