A quiet title action is a lawsuit asking a California court to declare who owns a property and wipe out competing claims. Not every cloud on title requires one, and the alternatives are usually faster.
California’s homestead exemption shields a slice of your home equity from creditors. It is not the homeowners’ property tax exemption, and on a voluntary sale the automatic version protects nothing.
In most California divorces neither spouse simply gets the house. It is community property, it gets divided equally in value, and the practical question is whether one of you buys the other out or you sell.
Orange County hears probate at the Costa Mesa Justice Complex, not in Santa Ana or at Lamoreaux, and the first petition costs $435. Here is what the process actually involves when there is a house to sell.
No California statute requires a residential tenant to sign an estoppel certificate — the obligation comes from the lease, if it comes from anywhere. What buyers are actually verifying, what happens when a tenant refuses, and why a rent roll is not a substitute.
Cash for keys is a negotiated surrender, not a legal process — which is why the agreement matters so much. What belongs in one, how it compares to the cost of an unlawful detainer, and why the City of Los Angeles regulates it under LAMC 151.31 with a mandatory disclosure and a 30-day tenant cancellation right.
No written lease does not mean no tenancy. California law turns a handshake arrangement into a month-to-month tenancy with the same protections as any other. The 30 and 60-day rules, why just cause still applies, and the narrow lodger exception under Civil Code 1946.5.
California has exactly one lawful way to remove a tenant: an unlawful detainer action in court. Which notice fits which situation, why just cause changes everything at twelve months, the 10-court-day answer window under AB 2347, and what self-help actually costs you.
In California a lease runs with the property, so the buyer inherits your tenant. Here’s how Civil Code 1954 showing notice, the 1950.5(i) deposit handoff and just cause after twelve months work during a sale.
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