Real Estate

In Florida, a partition action is a legal proceeding that allows a property's co-owners to divide the property among themselves, or sell it and divide…

The Florida Homestead Exemption is a tax benefit provided to eligible homeowners. It reduces the assessed value of their primary residence for tax property. This…

In Florida, a “statutory employer” is a legal term used in workers’ compensation law. It refers to a situation where an employer (the contractor) hires…

The merger doctrine is a doctrine in real estate law. In essence, it states that the real estate property's transfer contract merges into the transaction's…

A Homeowner Benefit Agreement (HBA) is an agreement where a real estate agent contracts with a property owner for a right to sell her property…

There are several legal hurdles a mortgage lender has to meet in order to be able to foreclose on your home mortgage. In this and…

It sounds like a great idea: Let’s buy a property in foreclosure and then remodel it and resell it? Or perhaps, rent it out to…

Title insurance, as the name indicates, is insurance to title; to the title of a real estate property, more specifically. Now to first understand “title…