8/2/17: How to Draft Better Additional Provisions – Part IV: The A, B, C’s of writing additional provisions with examples. https://youtu.be/gyMOFjgvlbs Welcome. This is the fourth installment in our series of webcasts on how to draft better additional provisions in the Colorado Real Estate Commission Approved Contract. Our first one talked about the notion to first seek to avoid drafting an additional provision at all. The second said oh, if…
…Contingencies. 6/14/17: How to Draft Better Additional Provisions – Part II. If you cannot accomplish your goal with existing pre-printed language, attempt to supplement the existing language in the pre-printed contract. We illustrate this point with examples. 5/24/17: How to Draft Better Additional Provisions – Part I. Seek to avoid drafting additional provisions at all by using pre-printed language to achieve the same result. We illustrate this point with examples….
…recorded, or slanderous, it is imperative to understand your legal rights and remedies. If you have any questions regarding this article, what constitutes “slander of title,” or your options and remedies regarding the same, please contact our office for legal advice. Reprinted from Colorado Creditors’ Remedies—Debtors’ Relief, Volumes 9 and 10 in the Colorado Practice Series, with permission of Thomson Reuters. For more information about this publication please visit www.legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com….
…or sold by others. See 15 U.S.C. § 1127; see also 15 U.S.C. § 1052. A company may have multiple trademarks as a trademark may be comprised of “any word, name, symbol, or device, or combination thereof . . . .” 15 U.S.C. § 1127. Companies may seek a trademark registration as early as when they have an intent to use the mark in interstate commerce. See 15 U.S.C. §…
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…owner/seller still possesses the property’s minerals, referred to as an “Included Mineral Rights Scenario.”[2] Title Commitment When a buyer and seller agree to the sale of property, a title company issues a title commitment, which is used to generate the buyer’s title insurance policy. A title commitment will not provide an opinion on mineral ownership and will not insure rights to the minerals, but it is a great place to…
…outside “third party bidders,” if there are public bidders interested in purchasing the property being sold at foreclosure sale. The highest bidder for the property at the foreclosure sale is the “successful bidder,” entitling the successful bidder to a Certificate of Purchase of the property. If a third party bidder at foreclosure sale submitted the highest bid, or successful bid at the foreclosure sale, then the third party’s bid exceeded…
Earnest Money Release Revolution: The 2017 Colorado Real Estate Commission Approved Earnest Money Release form no longer has an automatic release. https://youtu.be/K-HfPmXDbyo 2/27/17: Earnest Money Release Revolution. Prior to 2017 the Colorado Real Estate Commission Approved Earnest Money Release form essentially provided for a full release between the buyer and the seller (if both sides signed the earnest money release) subject to a few intuitive exceptions. The 2017 form no…
…“contributions to the costs of raising the children” refers to the percentage of child support attributed to each parent in the course of making the child support computation. In re Staggs, 940 P.2d 1109 (Colo. App. 1997). For example, let’s presume that a father and mother have 2 children, the father’s monthly gross income is $6,770 per month, and the mother’s monthly gross income is $3,330 per month. Their combined…
