A dispute over land is rarely only about money. It usually involves your largest asset, a remedy the law reserves for real property, and a party you cannot simply walk away from, whether a co-owner, a neighbor, or the other side of a sale. We represent owners, buyers, sellers, and businesses when the question is who holds what, and on what terms.

When the asset in dispute is land, the court can decide who holds it, and on what terms. We prepare every matter as if it will.

Real property is the rare arena where a court can do more than award damages. It can order a sale and divide the proceeds, quiet a cloud on title, compel a reluctant seller to perform, or move a boundary that has stood for years. When those remedies are on the table, the dispute is no longer about a sum of money. It is about who ends up holding the asset, and those are stakes of a different order.

It also rarely involves a stranger. The other side is usually a co-owner, a neighbor, or a counterparty to a sale, someone the law will bind you to until the matter is resolved one way or another. We represent owners, buyers, sellers, and businesses on the full weight of that question, and we are candid from the first conversation about what it will take. Property litigation can be slow and costly, and the honest first step is often a clear accounting of likely recovery against what can realistically be collected. When a matter should be pursued, our clients work directly with the partner handling it, from the first call through resolution.

The firm has handled real property matters in Nevada County and throughout California for decades.

Scope

Partition actions, quiet title, boundary and encroachment disputes, easement and access rights, purchase-and-sale and nondisclosure disputes, title and escrow disputes, specific performance, and trespass and ejectment

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