PRINT ARTICLE By: Alexander J. Menendez, Esq. It’s something that’s easy to put off. However, after being recorded for thirty (30) years, if not properly preserved, a community’s covenants or deed restrictions can be extinguished by Florida’s Marketable Record Title Act (known as “MRTA” for short). Further,
PRINT ARTICLE By: Christina Harris Schwinn, Esq. On January 12, 2022, the State of Florida’s Department of Business and Professional Regulation’s Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares and Mobile Homes (“Division”) issued a final order granting a Petition for Declaratory Statement (“DS”) addressing whether emails between condominium
PRINT ARTICLE By: Dillon L. McColgan, Esq. Last month, the Third District Court of Appeal in Florida filed its opinion in K.D. Constr. of Fla., Inc. v. MDM Retail, Ltd., 2021 WL 5617447 (Fla. 3d DCA Dec. 1, 2021), addressing a significant concern facing many commercial landlords—when
PRINT ARTICLE By: Christopher L. Pope, Esq., Florida Bar Board Certified Specialist in Construction Law and Condominium & Planned Development Law Because of the collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, on December 15, 2021, Freddie Mac issued Bulletin 2021-38: Temporary Condominium and Cooperative
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PRINT ARTICLE By: Christina Harris Schwinn, Esq. Effective as of November 16, 2021, OSHA announced that it will suspend implementation of its emergency temporary standard (ETS) on mandatory COVID vaccine/testing requirements that it issued on November 4, 2021. This announcement follows the entry of an order by
PRINT ARTICLE By: Christina Harris Schwinn, Esq. Why are employers required to report newly hired (rehired) employees and independent contractors? The obvious reason is so that the State of Florida can determine whether unemployment taxes are being paid on the wages paid to the employees. There
PRINT ARTICLE By: Christina Harris Schwinn, Esq. Ever since President Biden announced last September that his administration would instruct the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OHSA) to promulgate an emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring employers with 100 or more employees to require their employees to be vaccinated,
The Florida Bar RPPTL Condominium Law and Policy Life Safety Advisory Task Force published its advisory recommendations for changes to condominium law and condominium operation on October 12, 2021 in response to the Champlain Towers South collapse that took the lives of 98 individuals in
PRINT ARTICLE By: Michael P. Lehnert, Esq. 2020 ushered in long awaited legal and technological advancements into the real estate market, which, by seeming happenstance, were immensely beneficial in allowing the market to cope with COVID-19’s shocking effects. Assimilation of these technological advancements into legal practice has generated