The foreclosure moratorium that has kept jobless Californians in their homes during the ongoing recession has been extended yet again.
Federal foreclosure moratorium extended through mid-year
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Form-of-the-Week: Homestead exemption, an asset preservation declaration – Form 465
Form-of-the-Week: Declaration of Homestead and Automatic Homestead – Form 465
California grants statewide entitlement extensions
To lessen housing production delays amidst California’s affordable housing shortage, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill (AB) 1561 on September 28, 2020. This bill extends certain housing entitlements, in an effort to decrease disruptions in housing...
Is a contractor digging a trench liable for killing a boundary-line tree and timber trespass when a city code forbids digging in a tree’s critical root zone?
Russell v. Man
The spirit of compliance: Career Compass sets itself against CAR and the DRE
Read about The Career Compass’s ongoing battle with the DRE and CAR, highlighting the need for the DRE to foment competition and compliance equally among all course providers — including CAR.
Disaster relief: avoiding reassessments
California’s 2020 fire season was the largest recorded in the state’s modern history. In total, it claimed over 10,000 structures and displaced countless more Californians. On September 24, 2020, Governor Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 2013, a bill protecting...
Change the law: Grant anti-accrual protections for residential tenants
firsttuesday proposes to eliminate the ability of residential landlords to take tenants to small claims court.
May a school district impose school impact fees on a development for university students without children?
AMCAL Chico LLC v. Chico Unified School District
Is the public entitled to an easement to use trails on a property whose owner continuously attempts to deter trespassers?
Tiburon/Belvedere Residents United to Support the Trails v. Martha Company
Errata & Updates
Chapter 2: The MLS environment. The updated statutory Agency Law Disclosure
and confirmation provision went into effect the beginning of 2019. Both the
content of the form and when it is to be used have been modified. For a
thorough analysis of the new disclosure and confirmation practices, see the
January 2019 article, What you need to know about the refreshed – and mostly
improved – Agency Law Disclosure.
Chapter 32: The breaching buyer’s responsibilities. The first subhead on page
350 should read “Interest depends on property use.”