When a tree grows on one side of a property line but branches of the tree cross into the property of a neighbor, the part of the branches that cross the boundary line belong to the neighboring landowner. For many years, the law in California allowed a landowner to cut back the branches ...
By filing Chapter 13 bankruptcy you can stop a foreclosure sale of your property either temporarily or permanently by having the Court agree to your bankruptcy repayment plan. Filing Chapter 13 bankruptcy may provide the following: repay missed mortgage payments (your mortgage arrears) over the ...
California Alien Land Law prohibited "aliens ineligible to citizenship" (ie. all Asian immigrants) from owning land or property, but permitted three year leases. The Raker Bill, which eventually became the Raker Act, granted the city of San Francisco the right to dam the Hetch Hetchy Valley ...
For Subscribers Legal fight over Leonard Cohen’s estate heats up Powerful rainstorm brings mudslides, street flooding, rescues across Southern California DWP hires law firm, at up to $1,975 an hour, to defend against Palisades fire lawsuits Heavy mudslides and flooding shut down PCH, sweep...
January 1, 2023, Assembly Bill 1949 requires employers to grant employees five days of unpaid bereavement leave (that need not be taken consecutively) for the death of a family member, including a spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, domestic partner or parent-in-law. ...
A two-car L.A. garage gets a surprising makeover as a West African-inspired ADU My house didn’t burn but ash from the L.A. fires fell in my yard. Can I eat from my garden? Is my soil safe? For this neurodivergent fiber artist, weaving is the one thing that calms her mind ...
The bottom line: The court held that the plaintiffs could not sue the City for the view obstruction because “’[U]nder California law, a landowner has no right to an unobstructed view over adjoining property.’” Boxer v. City of Beverly Hills (2016) 246 Cal.App.4th 1212, 1219 (citin...
Under the law of California, therefore, the property interests of the Church are jealously safeguarded, and she is free to hold her church property in either of the methods above pointed out. Prior to the year 1900, California stood alone among the States of the Union in taxing church ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California lawmaker introduced a bill Monday to allow admission priority to the descendants of slaves at the University of California and California State University, two of the largest public university systems in the nation
State law requires California drivers to carry both bodily injury and property damage liability insurance. Bodily injury liability coverage (BI) If you’re at fault in an accident that injures someone else, this covers their medical costs and other injury-related expenses, up to your policy’s ...