Real Property, Real Estate, and Land Use Disputes
Representative Cases
- Numerous cases involving disputes pertaining to roads and access, water, soil, structures, trees, odor, encroachment, trespass, adverse possession in urban and rural areas. These cases typically involve insurance coverage issues and sometimes architects, general contractors, real estate agents and brokers and municipal building and safety departments.
- Numerous disputes between neighbors in rural and urban areas over Covenant, Conditions and Restrictions violations.
- Commercial tenants in Koreatown sued high-rise owner for breach of contract regarding a restaurant lease. The parties were childhood friends.
- Several cases between banks, lenders, mortgage companies suing homeowners for breach of mortgage payments and homeowners suing the same for breach of federal and state loan modification rules.
- Numerous partitions, quiet title and disputed claims of ownership actions between interrelated family members, investors and heirs over real property. Many of the cases involved one of the family members living in the house.