Protecting your real estate assets.
Real Estate
Transfers
Whether you're buying your first home, selling a property, or managing a real estate investment, navigating real estate transactions can be complex. Real Estate Transfers ensures that every step of the process is handled correctly, protecting your interests and preventing costly mistakes.
Why Real Estate Law Matters:
Protect Your Investment: Real estate is one of the most significant investments you'll make. Legal guidance ensures that contracts, disclosures, and negotiations are handled with precision, safeguarding your financial interests.
Prevent Legal Disputes: Real estate transactions involve numerous parties, from buyers and sellers to lenders and contractors. A real estate attorney helps you avoid potential disputes over title issues, property boundaries, or contract terms, ensuring a smooth transaction.
Ensure Compliance: Real estate laws vary by state and local jurisdiction. Whether you're dealing with zoning regulations, environmental restrictions, or landlord-tenant laws, having legal counsel ensures compliance and protects you from penalties.
Peace of Mind: With so much on the line, having legal support gives you confidence that your transaction will be handled properly. From reviewing contracts to closing deals, a real estate lawyer provides the guidance you need for a successful outcome.
At Ortego Law Firm, we specialize in real estate law and are here to help you navigate the complexities of property transactions. If you’re purchasing a family home, we’ll work to protect your interests every step of the way.
What it is: Real estate transfers overlaps with contract law, probate, and even estate planning. Our firm focuses on resolving issues in title and transferring ownership.
Quick Breakdown of Service
Who needs it: Real estate is the primary asset of most Americans. Anyone who needs to verify ownership of land, to clear title ownership to land or minerals, or to transfer land or minerals.
Why it’s necessary: Staying on top of real estate transfer issues is incredibly important. In real estate as in most legal matters, the longer you put off dealing with the problem, the more expense is involved and the more you risk losing your rights.
Our Real Estate Transfer Services
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A document that transfers ownership in real estate from one person or entity to another person or entity. There are many different types of deeds. We help our clients by selecting and drafting the appropriate deed for their situation.
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A type of deed that allows a person to name a primary and secondary beneficiary for their real estate. We use these deeds frequently to help our clients avoid probate. The ownership interest only transfers upon death. The owner of the property can revoke the transfer on death deed at any time before their death and the property is freely transferable during the owner’s lifetime.
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Also called an Enhanced Life Estate Deed, the owner retains certain rights, such as the right to live in the property and the right to sell the property and at the same time conveys the ownership rights to someone else. This is a way to convert a home to a nonprobate asset and can be part of a comprehensive Medicaid planning strategy...
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This is an alternative to probate and is available in some circumstances to transfer real property from a deceased person to their heirs. This requires an affiant and two corroborating witnesses who do not inherit from or have an interest in the Decedent’s property.
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An affidavit of death would be required after someone dies and they had signed and recorded a Transfer on Death Deed or a LadyBird Deed. It may also be appropriate when the deceased person owned title with someone else as “joint owners with rights of survivorship.”
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When a person buys real estate before their marriage and they subsequently get married, that person can convert the real estate to community property to protect their spouse. We prepare a deed and additional documents to be recorded in the real property records to convert the separate property to community property.
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When a person is married and wants to clarify that certain real estate is that person’s separate property, they may enter a separate property agreement with their spouse regarding that property to remove any ambiguity as to the classification of the property as separate property.
How to get started.
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Complete Our Online Intake Form
Get started from the comfort of your home by filling out our easy-to-use online intake form. This helps us gather important details about your situation, so we can hit the ground running when we meet.
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Call Us Directly
Prefer to talk? We’re just a phone call or email away. Reach out to us with your questions or concerns, and one of our friendly team members will guide you through the next steps in protecting your assets and family.
FAQs
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Many people think that the name of the owner in the appraisal district or property tax records is the owner of the real property. The record title owner may or may not correspond to the name of the owner in the appraisal district or property tax records. The record title owner is the last person to own the property as reflected in the Official Public Records of the county where the property is located. Once you verify the record title owner, additional research is needed if the owner is deceased.
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Description text goes hereThat depends on several factors. First, research to verify the record title owner and a review of the last deed in the chain of title is needed. Second, we will have to get more information about the facts and circumstances of your loved one’s estate, the existence of a Will, etc. We assist our clients with this analysis on a regular basis.
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No. We do not practice landlord tenant law.