If you are married and you live in a community property state, then you should know something about the law of community property. It can get pretty complex, and the law varies somewhat from state to state. Nevertheless, following are some characteristics that may help you understand community property law a little better. 1.Joint Management and Control of Property Neither spouse may unilaterally control or dispose of the marital property ? the consent of both spouses i...

When you buy a condominium, what are you actually getting? In a typical condominium arrangements, each ?tenant? owns his/her individual unit outright and owns the common areas as a ?tenant in common? together with the other tenants. Since you have ownership rather than mere leasehold rights, you can sell your unit and build up equity in it. A tenant in common is a fractional owner of the common property, meaning, for example, that if the property is sold he is entitled to ...

One of the disadvantages of seeking a career as a real estate broker is that your chances of getting sued are quite high, due to the various forms of legal liability to which you will be exposed. Among these are: (1) Contract Liability The listing agreement between a real estate broker and a seller of real estate typically requires the broker to exercise her ?best efforts? to find a ?ready, willing and able? buyer for the seller. However, the term ?best efforts? is noto...

Marketable title (sometimes called ?merchantable title?) is of much greater concern for the sale of real estate than with the same of personal property, mainly because of the complex and sometimes arcane rules applicable to real property. Property law recognizes a myriad of interests and procedures in real estate including easements, future interests, leaseholds, mortgages, and adverse possession, among others. For this reason it is quite likely that the interests in a given ...

When you hear about people caught of copyright infringement, many different things can happen to them. First, copyright infringement is both a civil and criminal crime, so people caught of copyright infringement are likely to get both sued and tried in criminal court. Because of the nature of copyright laws, if and when people are caught of copyright infringement, it?s likely they will get repercussions from far and wide. People are always looking for others violating copy...

The expiration date on your copyrighted music isn't something you have to worry about, at least not in your lifetime. The music that you've written is copyrighted the moment you've put it onto paper or recorded it. The reason you don't have to worry about expiration is because the music is protected until 70 years after the death of the author. In the case of your music, that author would be you. This rule about copyright music expiration was first put into place so that ...

With the popularity of the Internet, many people are violating music copyright law and do not even know it. Music copyright law can be very tricky. There are multiple music copyrights that you must keep in mind ? lyrics, composition and the recording of the music by an artist. Using someone?s music may involve you acquiring many different licenses such as mechanical, synchronization, performance and publishing licenses. Music copyright law has separate copyrights for the ...

Many people are surprised to learn there is no international copyright law. Yes, that is right. There is not an international copyright law that will protect your work on the other side of the world. However, it is important to note that most countries do offer some form of protection known as ?foreign? works. International conventions and treaties have done a lot to protect owners of copyrights around the world. With the world seemingly becoming smaller every day, the Un...

Singapore is a conservative country, its government repeated many times when the subject of its gay sex law is being discussed. The government explained that because of conservative population, it will not decriminalize the country's gay sex law or at least not in the near future. On April 12, 2007, Singapore Law Society tells the government that the retention of gay sex laws cannot be justified. The existing gay sex law with comments are as follows: Singapore Penal cod...

If you are a owner, member or operator of a non-corporate limited liability entity (LLE) that either was organized pursuant to the statutes or the state of New York or that is duly qualified to do business in New York, time is running out. By this it is meant you have only until May 31, 2007, to make certain that you fully are in compliance with certain newspaper publication and filing requirements that went into effect in New York. Specifically, if your LLE either was ...