A California partition action forces co-owners to divide or sell jointly owned property. Since January 2023 the rules changed: a court-ordered appraisal sets the value, co-owners get 45 days to elect a buyout, and the default sale is an open-market listing rather than an auction.
You can sell a California house with unpermitted work, but the state’s mandatory Transfer Disclosure Statement asks about it by name, in three separate line items, and an as-is clause does not waive the obligation. Here is what the law actually requires and how to decide whether to permit first.
A Heggstad petition asks a California probate court to confirm that a house belongs to a trust even though the deed was never changed. It is filed under Probate Code section 850, it takes at least 30 days of notice the court cannot shorten, and the order has to be recorded before you can sell.
The California small estate affidavit under Probate Code section 13100 cannot transfer real property at all — it reaches money, tangible personal property and securities. The procedure that does transfer a house is a different one, and since April 2025 it covers primary residences worth up to $750,000.
LA County probate is filed and heard at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse for a $435 first-paper fee. Here’s how hearing dates, the Probate Notes deadline, the referee appraisal and full vs. limited IAEA authority work.
How cash house-buying companies operate, how their offers are calculated, and how to vet a buyer and spot red flags before you sign.
Disclosure, lowballs, flippers and trust: the four objections California sellers raise most about as-is cash offers, and what the law and the pricing math actually say about each.
Cash offers aren’t random. Here’s the actual formula buyers use to land on a number, and how to tell a fair offer from a lowball.
Yes — escrow pays the county out of your proceeds at closing. The bigger question is whether you need to sell at all, because California gives residential owners five years of tax default before the tax collector gains the power to sell.
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