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McGlinchey Stafford

Second Department Holds Judicial Estoppel Bars Application of FAPA

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On July 16, 2025, the Appellate Division, Second Department declined to apply the Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act (FAPA) to a mortgage foreclosure commenced prior to FAPA’s enactment, pursuant to the doctrine of judicial...more

Perkins Coie

Percolating Groundwater Is Appurtenant to Land and Is Transferred With It

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The Court of Appeal confirmed that the rights to floodwater captured and stored in an aquifer beneath property were not personal property but rather appurtenant to the land and were transferred with the property during a...more

Oliva Gibbs

How Safe Are Your Severed Minerals From the Tax Man? Surface Tax Sales, Severed Minerals, and Bush v. Yarborough Oil & Gas, LP

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“You never own your [real property]; the government does. You’ll be paying them property tax forever.” —Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad In Bush v. Yarborough Oil & Gas, LP, the Texas Eighth District Court of...more

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