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Most adults make many decisions each day. For assistance with serious decisions involving your life, money or both, many California adults hire help from professionals or organizations. By law, these people and companies must follow fiduciary duty. What fiduciaries do...
Purchasing land in California can be an effective way to diversify your portfolio as there are several different ways that it can be used. For instance, it can be used to run a business, developed to include residential or commercial property or simply held for a...
The issue of eminent domain has historically been a leading cause of controversy in California. This is a principle that involves the state or federal government taking ownership of privately owned land. The land seized must be intended for public use. In addition,...
One of the issues that California residents frequently face when discussing eminent domain is whether the payment a property owner or a business owner gets from the government is ordinary income, exempt from taxes, or treated as capital gains. In many cases, the...
When individuals and businesses purchase property in California, they might automatically think they have the right to use it as they see fit. That includes building, expanding and making substantive changes. However, that is not as easy as it sounds. Zoning laws...
California governor Jerry Brown struck a decisive blow against crony capitalism in 2011. He did this by removing the official redevelopment agencies in the state. This helped to forestall predatory property development for over a decade. However, with the rise of a...
California municipalities enact zoning laws to maintain property values and to designate specific land areas for parks, commercial, industrial and residential uses. Requests for a zoning exception require the property owner, or potential owner, to submit an...
You can see inverse condemnation as the flip side of eminent domain. As outlined in California statutes, inverse condemnation can occur anytime the value of a property is diminished by the government or a utility company. The loss of property can be permanent or...
Governments and public-serving entities in California have the capacity to force the sale of real estate so that it can be used for a public use. This is known as an eminent domain action. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution authorizes government agencies to...
Owning real estate usually gives people a sense of security. But what recourse do residents of Southern California have when a state or local government exercises the power of eminent domain over their rights as private property owners? What is eminent domain? The...