Legal Updates

We are pleased to provide articles and legal updates from time to time pertaining to the areas of our expertise, including real estate legal matters and matters pertaining to the legal aspects of common interest communities and homeowners and other owners associations.

Articles of Interest

• The Narrowing of the Judicial Deference Protection of Lamden

• SB 800 Timing Requirements

• Troubled Projects – It Happens

Hanna and Van Atta on California Common Interest Developments (published by Thompson West)

The definitive work covering the law of California Common Interest Developments.  This two volume work covers the legal issues of common interest developments from the perspective of the developer - homebuilder as well as home owners' associations, their members and their managers.   The fundamentals and breadth of common-interest development law are reviewed, along with the authors’ practice pointers, comments and many useful forms.  The most recent edition adds important insights as to “troubled” real estate projects plus updates the text and forms for statutory changes and case law.