Serving the legal needs of Individuals and Businesses through Pennsylvania in the Core Practice areas of:
- Real Estate Transactions
- Wills, Estate Administration
- Business Matters
- Creditors Rights
- Personal Injury/Litigation
FAQ
An Abstract of Title is defined as a condensed history or summary of all transactions affecting a particular parcel of real estate, including the original grant, all conveyances and encumbrances affecting the property, and the abstractor's certification of the history's accuracy.
To ensure marketable title, our title searchers examine the public records in the city or town where the parcel of property is located. During a title search, several key things are examined. For instance, mortgages, real estate taxes, liens for sewers, roadways, sidewalks, and other municipal improvements, federal taxes, government claims, legal judgments, foreclosures, condemnations, covenants, and easements.
Title Insurance , as required by most lenders in a financed transaction, is a policy that protects against possible defects in title documents and potential legal challenges to your ownership or "Title". Defects include errors in deeds, errors in tax records, missing heirs, falsified records and misinterpreted wills. The full list is long. Title Insurance protects the policy holder by covering the costs of defending lawsuits challenging the insured title. The title company will resolve the problems or pay the losses incurred by the policy holder up to the amount of the policy.
For most of us, buying a home will be the single biggest investment we'll ever make. With immediate access to the law firm's attorneys, we are able to process both simple and complex transactions quickly and accurately.