Posted by on July 17, 2011
By Bradley S. Dornish and Jack P. Bock, III
As real estate lawyers, we run into questions involving bankruptcy of our landlord clients’ tenants, of our contractor clients’ customers, and of the owners of real estate our clients want to buy. In this series of articles, we will attempt to address some of the issues faced by those clients in each of those situations, and some of the peculiarities which come up when the state and federal laws involved don’t mesh well. Click here to read more »
Posted by on June 19, 2011
By Bradley S. Dornish and Jack P. Bock, III
As real estate lawyers, we run into questions involving bankruptcy of our landlord clients’ tenants, of our contractor clients’ customers, and of the owners of real estate our clients want to buy. In this series of articles, we will attempt to address some of the issues faced by those clients in each of those situations, and some of the peculiarities which come up when the state and federal laws involved don’t mesh well. Click here to read more »
Posted by on April 17, 2011
By Bradley S. Dornish, Esq.
In Pennsylvania there existed a long history of various different actions in equity, such as a “bill quia timet”, which were designed to clear different types of clouds on the title to particular parcels of real estate within the Commonwealth. As part of an effort to streamline and simplify legal proceedings in Pennsylvania, Rule 1061 et. seq. of the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure, creating an action at law to quiet title in 1947. Since the adoption of these rules and the creation of this action, an action at law to quiet title has been the exclusive way to clear title to real estate except in actions involving injunctions, which are still handled in equity, and not at law. Click here to read more »
Posted by on March 20, 2011
By Bradley S. Dornish, Esq.
The American Veterinary Medical Association estimates that substantially more than half of all households in America own either a dog or a cat. Many of those who own pets consider them to be members of the family, and dogs didn’t get the name “man’s best friend” for nothing. Pets teach children responsibility for other living animals, provide companionship, security and affection. Click here to read more »
Posted by on February 13, 2011
By Bradley S. Dornish, Esq.
Just when I started thinking the Western Pennsylvania Mortgage Fraud Task Force was slowing down, since I hadn’t seen any press releases in a while, the Department of Justice announced that the task force was going strong on its third anniversary. The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of PA, David Hickton, announced the filing of charges against 14 individuals in seven different mortgage fraud schemes on February 4, the anniversary of the formation of the task force. Click here to read more »
