For business owners who think they can form a limited liability company and avoid personal liability, a Florida appellate court has a message: THINK AGAIN! Just as an individual corporate officer may be held personally liable for negligence, so may a member of a limited liability company (LLC) be held personally liable for negligence. In…
Continue reading ›The NY Times reported (You’re Dead? That Won’t Stop the Debt Collector) on 3/3/09 how a certain debt collector collects from grieving families the debts owed by the deceased even though the family members are not legally obligated to pay. I don’t know about other states, but debt collectors should think twice before calling a…
Continue reading ›[Note: This blog was written in 2009 at the beginning of the mortgage foreclosure crisis and Great Recession. Some aspects of the mortgage foreclosure process have changed since then.] This blog entry summarizes the process for mortgage foreclosures in Florida. It does not give tips or tricks for plaintiffs or defendants. I represent both lenders…
Continue reading ›The New Yorker’s “Ponzi State” article quotes a sour Times Doug Bennett reporter as saying, “This is the epicenter of everything that’s bad in America.” Whoa there, Doug. Speak for yourself, please. I can think of a lot of bad places to be nominated as epicenters in America, and Florida would not even make the…
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