Oregon Residential Purchase Agreements: Contingencies, Earnest Money, Default, and Exit Rights A residential sale can come apart quickly. An inspection reveals costly foundation damage, financing fails, or a seller regrets accepting an offer after a better one arrives. Whether either side can leave depends on the signed purchase agreement and what happened under it. Oregon
What Happens When Unmarried Couples Disagree About Selling a Home in Oregon? If unmarried co-owners of a home in Oregon cannot agree on whether to sell or retain the property and there is no written co-ownership agreement, the primary legal remedy is often a partition lawsuit. This type of lawsuit can compel the sale of
Oregon Eviction, Ejectment, and Squatter Removal: Choosing the Right Procedure A tenant, holdover tenant, guest, licensee, statutory squatter, or occupant claiming ownership may each require a different notice and a different lawsuit. Calling someone a "squatter" does not make that person one under Oregon law, and an owner who picks the wrong procedure can have
Foreign Investment in U.S. Real Estate: What Buyers Must Resolve Before Closing Foreign buyers purchased 67,100 existing U.S. homes worth $45.3 billion between April 2025 and March 2026, both numbers down sharply from the year before. The decline matters less than it first appears. Nearly half of those purchases were all-cash, and Chinese buyers alone
The Value of Lot Line Adjustments Many property owners don’t realize the true location of their boundary lines—until a survey is done for a fence or a home addition. That’s when surprises arise: fences in the wrong place, buildings crossing over into a neighbor’s land, or confusion about who owns what. In these cases, a
Why You Should Always Put Your Easement in Writing Imagine moving into your new property, only to discover that what you thought was your driveway is actually your neighbor’s driveway. The prior owner only had an oral agreement to use it. Even if your neighbor seems agreeable to your continued use, things can quickly go
Oregon Adverse Possession: Elements, Evidence, Boundary Disputes, and Defenses A fence stands in the same place for decades. One neighbor maintains the land on one side, plants a garden, builds a shed, or simply treats it as part of the yard. Then a survey puts the deed line several feet away. The survey establishes the
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I could count my monthly court appearances on both hands. Nowadays, stepping into a courtroom feels almost nostalgic. The pandemic didn’t just shake things up; it flipped California’s justice system on its head. Remote technology made legal proceedings more accessible and efficient. What began as a temporary fix, born of necessity,
"Everything" is Recorded . . . . With smartphones in everyone's pockets, secretly recording conversations has become almost second nature for some. These recordings might seem like the ultimate evidence in legal battles, but beware: they're usually inadmissible in court and often illegal to obtain. So, what happens when your "smoking gun" is an illegal
How Do Lawyers Think About and Read Smart Contracts? Smart contracts on blockchains like Ethereum are essentially computer programs written in specialized programming languages like Solidity. Smart contracts serve two main functions - acting as an "account" to hold, receive and send cryptocurrencies/tokens, as well as code that automatically executes one or more actions when
