When Your Back Yard Becomes A Tourist Attraction
- by M. Laurie Murphy
Imagine that you let your neighbor occasionally take a shortcut across your property to get to a nearby state park. Then, sometime later, you realize that your neighbor’s Airbnb tenants are stomping along that pathway every week – and you can’t stop them.
This Gift Got Pretty Expensive
- by M. Laurie Murphy
A gift from one sister to another triggered a hike in property taxes that made what may have been intended as a kind gesture into an unexpectedly expensive transaction.
The Bumpy Road of an Easement
- by M. Laurie Murphy
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but legal ambiguity is not,” declared the California Court of Appeal, embellishing with that literary flourish a fairly routine dispute over an easement – but one with an important lesson for property owners.
Year-End Tax Planning for 2018
- by Valensi Rose, PLC
As the end of the year approaches, it is a good time to think about moves that will help lower your tax bill for this year and possibly the next.
2018 Year-End Tax Planning Moves for Individuals
- by Valensi Rose, PLC
As the end of the year approaches, it is a good time to think of planning moves that will help lower your tax bill for this year and possibly the next.
2018 Year-End Tax-Planning Moves for Businesses and Business Owners
- by Valensi Rose, PLC
For businesses, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act makes a number of major changes that may affect your year-end tax planning.