Why is Platting Required?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/22/2014
- Legal
While most homeowners have heard of the concept of platting, many find it foreign or overly technical. It's true that laypeople rarely have to deal directly with plat maps or the issues that arise from the platting - or non-platting - of a ...
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What is the Texas Economic Development Act?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/17/2014
- Finance
Texas has a proud tradition of adherence to the tenets of free-market capitalism, but its lawmakers aren't averse to lending local businesses and communities a helping hand. Since its enactment in 2001, the Texas Economic Development Act ...
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Title Opinion: What Do You Need to Know?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/13/2014
- Oil and Gas
No matter how long they've lived on their properties or made use of their mineral rights, landowners need to have a full and nuanced understanding of the rights that property ownership entails. Unfortunately, not all land titles are alike: ...
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What is the Proportionate Reduction Clause?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/10/2014
- Oil and Gas
The ongoing revolution in oil and natural gas exploration has created a wellspring of interest in the formerly sleepy subject of mineral lease agreements. From Texas to North Dakota and Pennsylvania to California, landowners who enter into ...
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Simple Guide to Texas Home Equity Lending Laws
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/08/2014
- Mortgage
Things aren't always bigger in Texas. To the delight of its homeowners, the Lone Star State boasts some of the country's strongest curbs on home equity lending. These effectively reduce the size of the average Texas home equity loan and ...
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Adverse Possession by a Co-Tenant in Texas
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 01/03/2014
- Real Estate
There are many ways of legally acquiring property in the United States. The vast majority of homeowners wend through the familiar mortgage-origination process and use the services of a real estate broker to secure an agreeable slice of ...
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Biggert Waters Act: How will Texas Flood Insurance Rates Affect Lending?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 12/30/2013
- Mortgage
Are Your Interest Payments Tax-Deductible?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 12/27/2013
- Finance
For most people, interest payments are a fact of life. Unless you're independently wealthy or have committed to leading an ascetic existence that requires no formal education, credit or significant assets, chances are good that you pay ...
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Happy Holidays from CourthouseDirect.com
The team at CourthouseDirect.com would like to wish everyone a safe and happy holidays. We look forward to working with everyone in the New Year.
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