Exploring Title Issues in Real Estate Transactions
Date: Dec 15, 2022 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Online
Areas of Law: Real Property, Trust, & Estate
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Title issues arise at different times in the residential real estate transaction. Title insurance, surveys and the title commitment are all spots a lawyer must look for a title issue. The issues themselves range from acquisition of real property, ownership interests, the effect of encumbrances, restrictions, and easements on title to judgements, mortgages, and foreclosure issues.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- The difference between title insurance and marketability of title
- What is covered under the standard title insurance contract?
- What is an exception? How do you exclude an exception?
- Surveys and their impact on title
- How claims develop and how they are processed
- The extent you can rely on a title insurance commitment
- the title companies’ duty to defend
- whether or not closing attorneys and agents can be held liable
- How to intervene in a Tax Sale Foreclosure action
- and more...