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September 19th, 2024 Beresford Booth Attorney Andrew M. McKenzie Talks about How Can I Get Access To My Landlocked Property. Read More

September 12th, 2024 Beresford Booth Attorney C. Michael Kvistad talks about Navigating Ownership Transitions: What Happens to an Entity When the Owner Passes Away? Read More

August 29th, 2024 Beresford Booth Attorney Joshua G. R. Curtis talks about The Single Most Important Estate Planning Document. Read More

August 15th, 2024 Beresford Booth Attorney David C. Tingstad talks about Translating the Washington Secretary of State’s Website. Read More

Easements present one of the most common encumbrances affecting title to real property. An easement allows a property owner to use someone else’s land for a specific purpose, such as ingress and egress, parking, utilities, and even temporary construction. My colleague, Andrew M. McKenzie, wrote an excellent blog post here regarding methods for determining whether… Read More

July 25th, 2024 Legal Law Clerk, Samantha L. Dammrose, talks about Washington Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Laws. Read More

July 18th, 2024 Beresford Booth Attorney Caleb J. Tingstad talks about Washington LLCs NEED Washington LLC Agreements. Read More

Security interests in certain types of personal property in the state of Washington are perfected only by filing a Uniform Commercial Code financing statement with the Washington Department of Licensing. “Perfection” of a security interest is important because it is a concept used to determine the priority of competing security interests in the same collateral.… Read More

In its recent opinion in Wilmington Savings Fund v. Hopkins, the Washington Court of Appeals put lenders on notice: the Court might not run interference for your sloppy drafting. In Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins owned their home through a living trust. In the wild west lending days of 2007, Lender lent $250,000 to Mr.… Read More