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If you are purchasing a piece of real estate here in California, you may need to address the issue of easements at some point. For the most part, easements are usually beneficial to someone, e.g., an electric company utilizing an easement to read your meter every...

It's very clear that the government has the power to use eminent domain. This means they can force private property owners to sell that property to the government, even if they were not interested in selling to begin with. This is a controversial process, but it is...

Boundary disputes can soon scale out of control. They can do so on a macro or micro scale, from two countries fighting over a borderline, to gangs defining the limits of their territory, to a robin in your garden declaring what it will do to any other bird that comes...

You may be realizing that trying to fight the government’s demand for eminent domain is practically impossible. The government does have the right to claim eminent domain “for public use.” The government may be planning to use your land to build a new highway. While...

It has taken years of hard work to build your business. Yet, your vision proved correct, and you now have a constant flow of customers willing to travel to you. Then you receive news that the government wants to build a road through your location, and they intend to...

If the government approaches you and says that they want to buy your land, you may be worried that the next step is eminent domain. If you do not want to sell, the government can sometimes use eminent domain to take your land.  This feels, in many ways, like it flies...

California has some of the most valuable real estate in the entire country. A house that sells for $1,000,000 in California might be worth less than a quarter of that amount if it was in the Midwest. The home that you live in is a major investment and also a source of...

The coronavirus pandemic has hit small businesses hard. According to recent data from Harvard University, the percentage of California businesses that closed during the pandemic stands at 35.9%. That ranks as the 11th highest small business closure rate among 45...

Finally, thousands of California businesses have an end in sight for COVID-19 restrictions that have shut them down or limited their capacity to serve customers for the past 13 months. On June 15, California will end the Blueprint for a Safer Economy metrics. Ending...

The number of Californians contracting coronavirus has dropped dramatically in the last month and more and more people are receiving vaccinations each day. Many businesses are more than ready to fully open and resume their normal operations. Some owners want to save...