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CALMING CORONAVIRUS FEARS BY PUTTING STATISTICS IN PERSPECTIVE

March 14, 2020 | Uncategorized

BY: Mark T. Guithues, Community Legal Advisors Inc Prepared Saturday, March 14, 2020 The purpose of this correspondence is threefold. 1) Give everyone encouragement and calm their fears in these anxious days. 2) Review some of the simple ways that you can protect yourself from getting the virus. 3.) Give healthy people a list of practical ways they can protect... Read More

SUMMARY OF NEW LEGISLATION AND CASE LAW

January 30, 2020 | Case Law

SUMMARY OF NEW LEGISLATION AND CASE LAW Mark T. Guithues, Esq. Laurie F. Masotto, Esq. Michael J. Alti, Esq. Mark Allen Wilson, Esq. Jeffrey W. Speights, Esq. Tracy Linkowski, Esq. January 2020  Thank you for trusting our firm with your community association’s legal needs. Because of you, CLA is growing! Please join us in welcoming Laurie Masotto Esq, with 25 years’ experience as a HOA attorney; Tracy... Read More

Post Petition Assessments Are Now Uncollectible Following Certain Chapter 13 Bankruptcies

September 17, 2018 | HOA Law

It is now against the law to attempt to collect assessments from a debtor who has successfully obtained a Chapter 13 discharge. Although courts will continue to treat post-petition assessments in all other bankruptcy chapters as personal debt that survives a bankruptcy discharge, associations can no longer file civil actions after a Chapter 13 bankruptcy discharge to recover outstanding... Read More