Driving around the streets of our towns, you may have noticed more and more residences sporting solar panels. With incentives and promotions, many homeowners in the past 10 years or so have added solar panels to their homes, achieving savings in electric bills. With the very active real estate market this past year, Cramer & […]
Arbitration and mediation are both examples of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) that are handled outside of the courtroom. Mediation can be used in many areas of the law, including divorce, personal injury and other litigation, property disputes, and more. While mediators have no power to resolve or decide a dispute, they often succeed in
UPDATE: We’re heartened to see the Senate pass legislation to more forcefully investigate hate crimes, especially those against members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander community (AAPI), as the Washington Post reports. ORIGINAL POST: The killings of six Asian women as part of mass shootings at Atlanta area spas and massage parlors in March tragically
Savvy thieves are able to forge documents, commit fraud, and steal the title/deed to your home, potentially to sell the property to someone else and reap the proceeds, or use their fraudulent ownership to access a lending tool and extract the home’s equity. Such an occurrence is extremely unlikely, as it would be difficult to
My property taxes are escrowed with my mortgage. How do I know they are being paid? First, let’s be sure you understand how mortgage escrow works. Escrow is a legal agreement for a third party to hold your funds until it is legally time to provide them to another party. In a property tax escrow,
At a time when families are moving to areas like western Connecticut as a reaction to the impact of COVID, and undertaking renovations and improvements to properties, a legal vehicle known as a mechanic’s lien is likely to become more prominent. A mechanic’s lien is a way for someone who has done improvements to
UPDATE: A General Assembly Finance Committee public hearing on the proposed new “mansion tax,” set forth in Senate Bill No. 171, is scheduled to be held via Zoom on Monday, March 15. Sign up here to offer testimony or comments. The hearing, beginning at 9 a.m., may be be viewed on YouTube. The odds are
With travel limited by the COVID-19 pandemic, scams involving the sale of timeshares seem to be on the rise. Federal government agencies and officials in some western states are issuing new warnings about scams targeting owners of timeshare properties, primarily in Mexico, following a rash of similar scams in 2019. The FBI Criminal Investigative Division
You want to build a residential house in a residential zone in your town. You need a zoning permit from the Zoning Enforcement Officer. You fill out the application, meet all the necessary requirements, and the zoning permit to build your house is issued by the Zoning Enforcement Officer. Is that the end of your
The exodus of families from New York City to Connecticut to escape coronavirus risks may continue making headlines, but our state’s population has decreased for six years in a row, and last year around this time the media was focusing on the trend of residents moving out of state. Leaving Connecticut will get more expensive beginning July 1
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