A fence has stood for years on what your family treated as your side of the yard. A parent died, and the deed for the house in Orange County or Los Angeles doesn't match the lot everyone used. Or a neighbor has been crossing a strip of your land, and nobody put the arrangement in…
A home purchase in Orange County can appear ready to close until a title report reveals an old lien. A family selling inherited property may discover that a prior owner's estate never transferred the property correctly. A co-owner may learn that the deed description doesn't match the parcel everyone believed the family owned. These problems…
A homeowner in Long Beach receives a title commitment just before refinancing and sees an exception for an unrecorded deed from 1987. The sale or loan is now uncertain, and the first question is immediate: How much will a quiet title action cost in California? That question has two parts. One is the attorney's fee…
You're preparing to refinance your Tustin home when escrow calls with bad news. A decades-old child support lien still appears in the record, and the lender won't fund until someone proves whether the lien remains valid. Or you're a Costa Mesa buyer who discovers, after closing, that a relative of a former owner claims an…