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Options for Creditors After a Declaration of Bankruptcy

  • CourthouseDirect.com Team
  • 08/05/2013
  • Legal
You are a creditor. One of your customers or clients has declared bankruptcy. What will that mean for your bottom line and what do you do to minimize the impact to your business? How can you recoup your debt? Will it even be possible to do ...
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Investment Real Estate Tax Credits You Might be Missing Out On

Whether you're looking to purchase a new owner-occupied property or build a bona fide real estate investment portfolio, it's in your financial interest to find novel ways to maximize your profit potential. In an uneven real estate market, ...
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How to Prepare a Title Opinion

Title opinions are essential to the practice of residential and commercial real estate law. Among other things, they play a crucial role in the smooth transfer of property and the orderly assignation of mineral rights. Unfortunately, ...
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What You Need to Know About Eagle Ford and Barnett Shale

Shale operations in Texas have grown exponentially since new natural gas and oil drilling methods have made extraction possible. Two of the largest shale plays in Texas are the Eagle Ford Shale and the Barnett Shale. While each yields ...
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What are Short Sales?

The term "short sale" sounds like it would be the answer to the prayers of both sellers and buyers; one wishing to get the home sold quickly and the other wanting to stop touring houses and get on with moving in.
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How Do Land Title Loans Work?

Contrary to popular belief, title loans aren't restricted to the vehicle financing industry. Although the most commonly issued types of title loans are attached to passenger cars, motorcycles, RVs and other rolling stock, it's possible to ...
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Construction Loans: What You Need to Know

If you've purchased a tract of raw land or wish to move into an unfinished subdivision with generous code allowances, you're probably thinking about building a new home from the ground up. Unless you have a lot of money saved up, this will ...
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What Should You Know Before Purchasing Foreclosure Property?

The late-2000s housing bust and financial crisis created tremendous headaches for counties and municipalities that had staked their financial fortunes on rising land values and easy mortgage lending policies. The economic aftereffects of ...
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How to Protect your Assets after a Divorce

  • CourthouseDirect.com Team
  • 07/12/2013
  • Legal
It’s been said over and over again; nobody gets married expecting to divorce. And it’s been stated over and over again that 50% of all marriages will end in divorce. It is a classic "hope for the best and prepare for the worst" scenario. ...
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How Do Offshore Mineral Rights Work?

The processes by which "dry-land" mineral rights are distributed and exercised has been well-documented. In most American jurisdictions, a landowner who enjoys unadulterated ownership of his or her property has the right to dispose of the ...
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