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Tenancy by the Entirety
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The State of Fair Housing in These Times of Change.
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COVID -19 Response from a Legal and Estate Planning Perspective- Protect your Family.
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Privacy and Social Media: How Your “Private” Content is Still Discoverable in a Lawsuit.
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Airbnb and the sharing economy: is it legal to rent out my home?
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Real Estate Broker “Dual Agency”: What it is, and what it means for you in a real estate transaction.
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The hidden costs behind title insurance: How title companies used to pay “inducements” (kickbacks) to encourage lawyers and realtors to use them and the 2018 New York State regulations designed to stop them.
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What is a Mortgage Contingency in a New York State Real Estate Contract- Ask Steve Miller!
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Think before you as “siri” or “alexa”– Ramifications of the New Smart Home.
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Tenants by the Entirety as a form of Ownership– More Nuanced Than Simply being Married.
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Temporary Residences, SRO, or a Hotel- Local Governments Cracking Down on Non-traditional Tenants.
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Protect Yourself from Internet Trolls Looking For an Easy Payday.
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Have you ever considered the Legal Issues and Financial Issues Arising from the Installation of Solar Panels on your Home in New York?
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Some Respite (and Protection) from the Allegedly Defamatory On-Line Review?
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Black Ops versus Tactical Ops-Beer Naming Becomes a Trademark Battle.
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Will a Defamation Action Lie if you Call your Neighbor a Witch?
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Avoid Misunderstandings Over Fixtures and Furnishings.
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Condominium Insurance is Often Mis-Understood.
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Thinking About Restructuring Your Mortgage? Why Now is the Time.
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Attention New York Property Owners – Reduce Your Property Tax Bill.
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What if the Mortgage Company Revokes my Mortgage after a Commitment was Issued in New York.
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How protecting your downpayment begins with your mortgage application in New York Real Estate Contracts.
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New Yorkers– Keep your STAR benefits: Everything you need to know.
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Insurance Tips when Buying a Home In New York.
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A Homebuyer’s Essential: The Appraisal Clause in a Real Estate Contract in New York.
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Insurance Tips For First Time Homebuyers In New York State
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Restaurants serving up copyright infringement/Dinner with a side of copyright infringement?
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ilence is Golden for Sellers in New York– the Property Condition Disclosure Statement (PCDS)
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NYS STAR Exemption– Calling ALL homeowners in New York
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CHOCOLATE KISS COLORED CARPET…. BEAUTIFUL? YUMMY? or INFRINGING?
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Think Twice Before Posting an Online Review.
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What to do with a Lost Original Will in New York.
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The new leader of Legal Malpractice Claims– HIre the Right Real Estate Lawyer.
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Do You Have the Right Amount of Insurance– Think About it when you Buy a House in New York?
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How Much will that Building Permit Cost? It depends …
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What Effect Does Your Landlord’s Housing Violation Have on Your Duty to Pay Rent?
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Punitive Damages: A New Risk in Legal Malpractice in New York?
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Want fresh eggs everyday? Get a chicken (but check the Town Code first in New York).
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Does the Estate Owe Money in New York– Surrogate Court Bonding.
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New York State Thoughts on Same Sex Couples and the Obstacles to Equal Rights in Parenting.
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FB, Linkedin, Social Profiles and death in New York and on the internet.
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A Decision Heard ‘Round the Legal World—Fischer & Mandell LLP v. Citibank.’
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STAR Exemptions in residential New York Real Estate transactions.
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Common Problems with Wills, and How To Ensure Yours is Valid in New York State.
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Forced Place Insurance Forces Homeowners Closer to Foreclosure
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Paying for Peace: Why Surveys Are Helpful When Purchasing Real Estate in New York
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Taglines and Trademarks: First in Time Gets First in Tag (Line)
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Trademarks and the Internet—More Related Than One Would Think!
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Home Improvement Contractors and Mechanic’s Liens Filed Against Your Home in New York.
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Why should I check for an Oil Tank in New York?
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Installing “Airports” on private land in New York.
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So You need a Name Change in New York.
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Protecting your Home from Creditors in New York
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So Your Attorney Told You Not to Talk to the Other Party in New York?
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Second Hand Smoke—What Are Your Rights as Property Owners or Lessees in New York?
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Copyright Infringment
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Holographic Wills—What Are They, and What is Really Needed In Order For Them to Be Valid?
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Middle Class to Take Hit to the Pocket Book– Mortgage Interest Deduction is on the Chopping Block.
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What Exactly is an “Important Paper” and how do you get “organized?’
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Attorney Fee Disputes in New York and Part 137 de novo review.
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Attorney Malpractice, Title Insurance to Prescriptive Easements, No Access in New York.
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The Appraisal Contingency in Today’s New York Real Estate Contract.
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What to do about Buying a Home with your Significant Other in New York.
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Sometimes life just gets in the way– Judges in New York should be so Compassionate.
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Sidewalks are Our Responsibility in Nyack, New York.
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Home Town Law-Nyack, New York
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What is Title Insurance and Why is it Such a Hot Topic in New York?
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New York Small Business and Small Towns Need Lawyers.
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Primer-Creativity Protected by Intellectual Property in New York.
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Home Improvement Protections Exist in New York, Use Them.
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So, You’re Starting a Business. . . . . in New York?
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So, you don’t have a Will in New York. . . . .
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Qualified Small Business Stock– Interesting, but I am no Tax Attorney!!
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When is a “sign” not a Sign in the Village of Rhinebeck, New York?
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Are My Real Estate Taxes Going to Increase When I Buy a House in New York?
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A Name isn’t Everything– And Not Always Available under the Business Corporation Law of New York.
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Recent Case–Can Parking on a Public Street be a Nuisance in New York?
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New York Legislature Proactively Trying to Level the Playing Field in Residential Foreclosures.
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Attorneys Fees to Tenants in Landlord Tenant Disputes in New York.
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More on the Power of Attorneys in New York.
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More on the tony New York Bed Bugs-.
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Small Business and Intellectual Property-Copyrights and Trademarks in New York.
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Chiming Church Bells and Blaring Fire Horns a Nuisance in New York?
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Illegal Removal of Trees in New York.
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Attorney Ethics May Result in Attorney Liability to Clients and Third Parties in New York.
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Does Settlement Bar Legal Malpractice in New York?
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Internet Defamation in New York- Opinion or Actionable Defamation?
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Debtors are Fighting Back and NY Courts are Listening.
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HIRING A REAL ESTATE ATTORNEY IN NEW YORK.
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What to do When Someone is Infringing upon Your Internet Domain.
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CREATING A CONSERVATION EASEMENT IN NEW YORK.
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Local Hudson Valley Lawyers Can Help Avoid the Pitfalls of a Weekend Retreat!
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What is a Planning Board in New York?
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What is a Public Adjuster and Why are they Calling?
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Searching for Information on New York State Law.
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What is a Fiduciary and What Should you Expect?
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Legal Malpractice after the Client “Settles” the Case?
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More on the Recent Power of Attorney Changes in New York.
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Why no Property Disclosure Statement in New York?
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If your thinking Rockland County, Pearl River–NYTimes article of the Life and Times.
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Sometimes a Lawyer Needs to Think before He Sues!
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RULES TO CLARIFY COST OF MORTGAGES AND TO GIVE NEW YORKERS CLARITY?
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Tools to Grieve your Taxes Exist– the Government Provides Them in Dutchess County, New York.
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Adverse possession, Walling decision, and its application in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd Departments.
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New York’s Seizure of Private Land for Public Good?
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Recent Highlights in the Neighbor Wars-Adverse Possession
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Mortgages – Fraud Watch for Homeowners in New York!
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Legal Insurer Liable for Loss Despite Notice Issues.
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Unintended Results of New York’s New Power of Attorney Forms.
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Did You Know that Septic Tanks and Fields Can “Fail?”
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Restraining Notices and New York State Bank Accounts Exempt Income Protection Act (EIPA).
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Don’t put your head in the sand when you get sued for Foreclosure in New York.
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WHAT ARE DECLARATION OF RESTRICTIONS IN A SUB-DIVISION AND WHY SHOULD YOU READ THEM OR ASK YOUR ATTORNEY ABOUT THEM?
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Underground Storage Tanks (USTs) and the New York Real Estate Closing.
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When your Estate Planning Attorney is Not Your Attorney in New York.
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When a Real Estate Closing Attorney is Not an Attorney in New York?
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Do Fewer Layers of Government Mean Fewer Taxes in New York?
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Brooklyn Court Does the Right Thing in Foreclosure Action.
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What to Expect from your Local (Real Estate or Business) Attorney in New York.
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New York State Raises Filing Fees on Deed Recording.
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Buyer Beware: of Bed Bugs?
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Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act– Compliance in New York
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Sale and Lease Back Options in Distressed New York State Real Estate.
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Powers of Attorney in New York– New Forms and Protections
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Lands Underwater in the Hudson River Valley and New York State
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Adverse Possession is NOT so easy to Prove in New York.
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Land Use Rules in New York Dictate Your Decisions
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No Equity, Scammers Go for the Debt Consolidation Fraud in New York.
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Don’t be Fooled by the Power of the Appraisal in New York
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New York Attorney General Asks–Do You Know Your Home Improvement Contractor?
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Professional Telemarketers Make the Money, Not the Not For Profits– Give Directly
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Refinancing — the Fed to the Rescue of New York Homeowners?
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Long Term Disability Claimant Wins Against Unum Provident.
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IRS and New York State Tax Department Trying to Expedite Tax Lien Information and Closings.
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Second Home Taxes and Exclusions–Capital Gains Tax May Hurt in New York
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Daily News- “Steals the Empire State Building”– New York City Fraud Investigation.
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Attorney Contingency Clauses in Upstate New York.
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What is a CEMA and How Does it Save Money in New York?
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Have You Executed a Simple Will to Protect Your New York State Relatives?
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Small Business Transactions–New York Bulk Transfer Affidavit
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What is an “Apostille” or “Authentication?”
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New HUD Rules, Too Little, Too Late for “Uninformed” New York Borrowers?
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How is this Mortgage Crisis Going to End as Home Values Plummet in New York?
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Will Seller Financing Help You Sell that Hard to Sell Home in New York?
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Is Your Home Worth Less Than Your Mortgage in New York?
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Traps of the Reverse Mortgage Tool in New York.
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Additional Short Sales Tips for Those Proceeding in New York.
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Surveys, Survey Inspections, and Survey Endorsements in a New York Real Estate Transfer.
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Reverse Mortgages Get New Legislation.
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Disciplinary Proceedings and New York’s “Dead Man Statute”
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So, You Think That You Have What it Takes to Buy a Foreclosed Home in New York.
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New York Homebuyers– Common Tax Traps for the Unwary
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Eastchester, New York– Flooded, What’s a Home Owner to Do?
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Environmental Disclosure– New York Takes the Lead– But Where Will it Lead
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Lawyers are Just as Susceptible to Scams as Anyone
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Town of North East, Dutchess County– Transfer Tax
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Legal Malpractice Claims and Real Estate– OOPS-
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Real Estate Brokerage Disputes– New York Law Amended.
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Housing and Economic Recovery in the Hudson Valley-New York
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Manhattan Real Estate Prices Starting to Decline-New York
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Even the Big Real Estate Deals Have Problems– New York
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Elimination of the Justice Courts– Upstate New York?
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Columbia County, New York– Transfer Tax
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New York State Mansion Tax– Buyers Beware
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Study Predicts (Hints) that Plaintiffs Should Settle, Rather than go to Trial-Even in New York
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Dutchess County Executive Vetoes Mandatory Well Testing Law–Upstate New York.
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Adverse Possession in New York–Fences
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Mortgage Laws Enacted in New York
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Suing Your Insurer in New York Just Got Easier
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Excessive Fees and Over Charging Attorneys
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The New York Legislature Undertakes a Definition of Adverse Possession
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Predatory Lending Practices May Defeat Your Foreclosure in New York
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Is it Legal Malpractice to Close Without a Certificate of Occupancy in New Construction?
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Mortgage Taxes and Re-Financing-New York Borrowers
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Property Disclosure Statements in New York
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Settle your Issues before Your Real Estate Closing in New York
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Is Drinking a Beer on your Stoop a Crime in New York?
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Westchester County Taking Lead On Septic Management White Plains, NY
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Westchester County Private Well Water Testing Law
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Mamaroneck, Westchester County – Discharge and Drainage Certificates
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Purchasing Real Estate In New York: its Fee Simple.
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