Category: Wisconsin
Our Governing Documents Have Aged Nicely
1 April 2024
Governing Documents for Condominium and Homeowner Associations don’t age well. They are not like a fine wine. They are more like cheap cheese. Remember, they ...
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Turnover From Developer—Unfair Easement
1 April 2024
Picture this: an urban condominium complex and neighboring apartment building, built by the same developer, with one parking garage between the two. The condominium owners ...
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Owner Responsible for Share of Costs to Maintain Subdivision Facilities
1 April 2024
Holding: The Supreme Court of Vermont held that a homeowners association, as assignee from the developer, could charge lot owners for its reasonable costs to ...
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HOAs & Riparian Rights-Can I Put a Dock Here?
1 April 2024
Facts The dispute in this case centered on what rights owners of lots that did not have frontage on a lake (“Non-Lake Lot Owners”) had ...
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Why Foreclosure and Money Judgment at the Same Time?
1 April 2024
A Wisconsin condominium association had a unit owner who was habitually delinquent in the payment of assessments. Neither the association or the property manager had ...
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COVID-19 & Bankruptcy
1 April 2024
The COVID-19 Pandemic has created a global economic crisis impacting individual unit and home owners, and the associations they comprise. An unfortunate result will be ...
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Why Hire an Attorney Who Specializes in Condominium & HOA Law
1 April 2024
A condominium association had an owner that was uncooperative, didn’t like following rules and paid assessments on her own timeframe for more than 10 years. ...
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Fiduciary Duties 101 – Limiting the Liability of the Board
1 April 2024
A fiduciary duty creates an obligation to act for another’s benefit. A board of director’s fiduciary duty is to the association and its members. So ...
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Know Your Governing Documents
1 April 2024
In a 2017 New York case, a dispute arose over what authority the Association had to perform landscaping maintenance on an individual homeowner’s lot (Minkin ...
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Wisconsin Governor Ever’s Emergency Order and Foreclosures
1 April 2024
Yesterday, Governor Ever’s signed Emergency Order #15 which reiterated the public health emergency relating to COVID 19. It’s title: “Temporary Ban on Evictions and Foreclosures” ...
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