Customary Land Law Explained
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 12/23/2013
- Oil and Gas
Customary land law typically refers to customary land tenure, a term indicating the relationship a society has created with respect to the use and ownership of real property. It often comes about through traditional practices within a ...
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5 Property Tax Breaks You Should be Claiming
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 12/20/2013
- Real Estate
5 Property Tax Breaks You Should Be Claiming There aren't many people, outside of Warren Buffet, who want to pay one penny more in taxes than they have to. You are probably one of them, so here is a list of five property tax breaks you ...
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Can You Buy a New Home with Bad Credit?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 12/18/2013
- Real Estate
Your credit score can have a major impact on your ability to obtain a home loan. Unless you're independently wealthy, this means that bad credit can adversely affect your ability to buy a home. Of course, the residential real estate market ...
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How Will a Divorce Affect your Mortgage Payments?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 12/16/2013
- Mortgage
Divorce proceedings produce plenty of emotional, financial and logistical headaches. Worse, they can create repercussions and aftereffects that last for years after the initial separation. While it's virtually impossible to anticipate all ...
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How Does Debt Restructuring Work?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 12/13/2013
- Finance
These days, it can seem like it's easier to get out of debt than to get into financial trouble in the first place. Of course, this isn't the case. While there are myriad ways to get tripped by up debt, there are only a few tried-and-true ...
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What is a Homestead Exemption and How Do You Qualify For It?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 12/11/2013
- Real Estate
A homestead exemption is a tax instrument offered by state law that exists to provide certain protections to home owners. Most include:
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5 Things to Do Before You Sell Your Home
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 12/09/2013
- Real Estate
Whether you're a first-time seller or a seasoned nomad, you should expect to hit a few speed bumps during the sales process. Whether these prove to be minor inconveniences or major roadblocks depends largely on your reaction to them. While ...
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Do You Really Need Private Mortgage Insurance?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 12/06/2013
- Mortgage
Whether you're a seasoned homeowner or looking to close on the purchase of your first residence, the prospect of buying a new home leads to plenty of important considerations. One of the most crucial of these is mortgage insurance. If ...
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What’s the Difference Between Core and Non-Core Bankruptcy?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 12/04/2013
- Finance
In the popular consciousness, bankruptcy tends to be a black-or-white affair: When you're insolvent, you declare bankruptcy and allow your creditors to take what they please. Of course, this is an overly simplistic conceptualization of a ...
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Home Equity Loans 101: What They Are and How They Work
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 12/02/2013
- Real Estate
You've probably heard of home equity loans, but you might be unclear on what these credit vehicles actually entail. Although the concept of a home equity loan is simple enough to understand, any detailed description of this form of credit ...
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