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Who is responsible if someone gets injured on my property? If you are negligent in maintaining your property, then you can be held responsible for someone’s injuries. If you are not negligent and maintaining your property well, then the person who is injured needs to look to see whoever did injure them. If it’s themselves, well then you should not have any liability. Although that doesn’t necessarily mean that they may not try and sue you. However, you should not have any liability unless they can show that you were a negligent and maintaining your property. If you have vacant property, you should not be liable for any injury unless there is some hazard there that is, could be dangerous to people or an attractive nuisance, particularly as far as children are concerned. But if you simply maintain the property and then a trust pass or someone else who comes across your property, you may not have any liability to them as long as the property was not particularly maintained in a dangerous condition. So, if you have any questions about this and you can give me a call at (727) 847-2288.

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What is a grant of easement? A grant of easement is whenever you execute a deed, does someone were in, you’re giving them a right to use a portion of your property for a particular purpose. Grants of easements are usually given to your neighbor on adjacent property owner in order to allow them to go across your property to gain access, which is called ingress and egress. The grant of bees went places a burden or encumbrance on your property and in turn bestows a benefit on the neighbor’s property. And it is something that runs with the land, meaning that whenever you convey the property, you convey it subject to your neighbors, right to continue to use this easement. And whenever your neighbor conveys their property, they can pay it. And with the right to continue to use the easement across your property, and that’s called the benefited parcel, and it’s a covenant or an agreement running with the land for both parcels. Do you have any questions about easements will give me a call (727) 847- 2288.

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What is a utility easement? Utility easement gives the utility company or right to use your property for the particular purpose of maintaining the utility lines or installing the utility lines on your property. Usually the utility easements are shown on the plat. Whenever the developer sets up the subdivision and they’re shown running usually across sometimes the rear or even the sides of the property, and allows the utility companies run their lines across your property as well as maintain the property. And we need questions about utility easements will give me a call at (727) 847- 2288.

 

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What is Florida documentary stamp tax Florida? Documentary stamps are a tax upon conveyances on deeds. They are $7 per thousand. You also have documentary stamps on promissory notes and Florida. This is a way to raise revenue for the state of Florida and that we do not have any income tax or a state taxes. We raise the government raises income through the documentary stamps and also through sales tax. If you have any questions about documentary stamps, please give me a call at (727) 847- 2288.

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Is the copy of a Will legal? No, you cannot have introduced into the probate court a copy of a Will. You must produce the original Will of the decedent in order for it to be admitted to probate. If you cannot locate the original Will and it was last in the possession of the decedent, it’s presumed revoked. Sometimes folks say, well, I’ll have signed two originals that way. I’ll leave one with a lawyer and I’ll take one. Well, in that instance, you have to account for both signed copies or again, it’s presumed to be revoked. Many of my clients like to leave the original Will in my office, not provide them with a copy so that if their copy is lost or if I even lose the original, it’s not presumed revoked because it was not last in their possession. So, with an original Will, it has to be presented to the court and must have to be proved by warrant of the witnesses who testified before the clerk that it was signed and the presence of both witnesses and the decedent and declared to be the last Will and Testament. That’s called approval. And that’s the reason why Wills are notarized and that that’s a self-proving Will. So the proof is done at the same time. The Will assign, but a Will does not have to be notarized in order to be effective. If you have any questions about Wills, give me a call at (727) 847-2288.