The History Behind Houston's Neighborhood Names
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 06/17/2015
- Legal
Houston is a city with a rich and distinct history, and the unusual names of neighborhoods that are scattered around tell the tale of this interesting town. Unlike other cities, Houston doesn't have official "zones." Instead, the city is ...
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Surviving the Oil Crisis: Tips for Landmen
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 06/10/2015
- Oil and Gas
The low price of oil may have had a positive effect on most of the general public, but the effect is not so good for workers in the oil industry. The price plummet has cost many landmen their jobs. Large oil companies have been shutting ...
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Understanding Texas Land Grants
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 06/03/2015
- Legal
The history of Texas land grants is a deep and complex one. When researching land records, historical land grants can affect the records one may uncover. Between 1716 and 1836, both Spain and Mexico gave out land grants for settlers to ...
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Can I Find Historical Divorce Records?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 05/27/2015
- Courthouse Documents
Many people contact court house record reporting services to find historical divorce records within their family lineage. When searching for family ancestry, it's common for people to want to know if and when divorces occurred in the past. ...
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Escrow Controls
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 05/20/2015
- Title
Not so long ago, escrow controls were largely a matter of personal preference. If you produced a monthly reconciliation of your accounts, you were more than doing your job. Those days are fading – very rapidly – but not all companies are ...
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Defining an Eminent Domain Attorney
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 05/14/2015
- Real Estate
An eminent domain attorney represents owners of private property who are faced with an acquisition of that property by the government under the very broad umbrella of eminent domain.
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How to Effectively Translate Records in Another Language
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 05/05/2015
- Courthouse Documents
When it comes to looking up official legal paperwork filed in Texas, many of the older documents may be written in Spanish. If you come across a patent, land grant or other piece of documentation while going through an old records, it may ...
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Evaluating an Easement: The Basics
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 04/21/2015
- Oil and Gas
When a landowner enters into an easement agreement and gives up some of the rights to his land, the documentation can be confusing and filled with difficult-to-understand legalese. To help cut through some of the confusion, we’ve come up ...
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NPI and Data Insecurity
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 04/16/2015
- Title
Does a day go by when a major corporation doesn’t announce that its defenses have failed and that its store of customer information is now in unknown hands? If you’re in the title industry, the question of data insecurity can lead to ...
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What Happens If Fraudulent Records Are Filed at the Courthouse?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 04/14/2015
- Courthouse Documents
Filing fraudulent documents at the courthouse is both unethical and illegal, but it’s a crime that dishonest people get away with. If never discovered, erroneous files passed on as fact at a courthouse can alter the future of land ...
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