By Bradley S. Dornish, Esq. A new year is a time for resolutions to open new businesses or to change the structure of the business you have for asset protection, tax benefits, privacy, retirement and/or estate planning purposes. But before you figure out the changes...
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Fall 2011 PROA Report
By Bradley S. Dornish, Esq. The quarterly PROA board meeting was held on the first Thursday of September. Our lobbyists from Pugliese Associates in Harrisburg reported on the status of almost a hundred different bills of interest to landlords and real estate...
Living Trusts: Truth and Fiction
By Charles C. Bell, Esquire and Bradley S. Dornish, Esquire A number of individuals are considering the use of a Living Trust to “ensure privacy” of their affairs after death, and the belief that this effectuates a substantial savings in probate costs after death....
Bankruptcy Issues for Landlords, Contractors, and Real Estate Buyers – Part 2: Claims and Claimants
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,...
Bankruptcy Issues for Landlords, Contractors, and Real Estate Buyers – Part 1: The Automatic Stay
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,...
Actions to Quiet Title in Pennsylvania
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...
Service Animals for Tenants with Disabilities: When Landlords and Condominium Associations Must Waive “No Pets” Rules
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...
Three Years of the Western PA Mortgage Fraud Task Force
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...
Cutting the Pie — Real Estate Partition Actions in Pennsylvania
By Bradley S. Dornish, Esq. When more than one person owns an interest in Pennsylvania real estate, and the owners can’t agree on the management or sale of the property, a special type of equity proceeding called Partition Action is the way to resolve the issues in...
2010 Year End Update on Rental Registration Cases
By Bradley S. Dornish, Esq. As we approach the end of the year and look back on our progress on Western Pennsylvania rental registration cases, it has been both a busy and a productive year. In Pittsburgh, City Council is considering the revised draft ordinance which...