How does a medical judgement affect future real estate?

Is the judgment against you or the other side of your land contract? If the judgment is docketed against the real property and you sell, that...

Was I in the wrong?

A controlled intersection with a Walk Don't Walk sign, the pedestrian is in the crosswalk when not standing on the curb and walking in the...

How do I make the landlord pay heat, as stated in the contract?

Dear Manhattan Tenant: I gather you meant Lease when you wrote "contract". Please provide the text of that lease provision. When did your...

Dear Brooklyn Roommate: Is the apartment in a multiple dwelling (a building with three or more apartments) or in a one or two-family...

Dear Brooklyn Collector: Try this website for research on legal swords in NYS. Beware that this website reports: Some types of concealable...

Is personal service of papers to start a case waived now in favor of regular mailing due to COVID?

Dear Corona Plaintiff You searched the Court website for questions about service of process. Not once did the Governor and the Court...

Dear Brooklyn Home Owner: You may very well require a deep analysis of the deeds for the three properties; a survey of the corner and a land-use...

Does your brother have a lease? If so, NYS has a statutory scheme that allows for ending a lease where a tenant moves to a nursing home. If there...

Dear Buffalo Driver: Unless your mother was a co-owner of the vehicle owned by your father, she did not become the owner of the vehicle when he...

I have a dead beat tenant that has multiple times taken landlords for over $4000 but me because of COVID $10,000 ?

The District Attorney must present evidence of probability of a crime committed by the tenant to a Grand Jury. A pattern of fraud where each...