- Child SupportYour monthly living expenses and any long-term debts - utilities, car and school loan, child support, health and car insurance, etc. These expenses should be no more than 36 percent of your monthly gross income.
- Theft
- ForgeryAn adverse right or interest asserted by one party against another or against an insurer or indemnitor. Claims may arise from unpaid debts or taxes, as well as from hidden title defects such as fraud, forgery, missing heirs, etc.
- Real Estate LitigationTom Duren is the owner of Mills County Abstract & Title Company and the law firm of Tom F. Duren, Attorney At Law, which share the same office in Goldthwaite, Texas. In addition, Tom maintains a private practice in real estate law in Brownwood, Texas. Tom was admitted to the bar in 1973 after receiving his J.D. from Texas Tech University School of Law in 1972. Prior to that he received his B.B.A. from Southern Methodist University in 1970. Tom is a member of the State Bar.Tom grew up in Goldthwaite and graduated from Goldthwaite High School. He is married to Melissa and they have one daughter, Katie, who is married to Eric.
- Real Estate TransactionsClosing the real estate transaction is basically the investigation made or actions taken by either a title agent or title attorney before the actual issuance of the title policy. There are five basic steps that usually followed in somewhat the same order in every real estate transaction. Although it is not the job of the title agent or title attorney to cure defects in or problems with the title to the property or perform escrow or other services outside of closing the transaction, title agents and title attorney help in these matters on a somewhat regular basis.
- Eminent DomainThe right of a government to take privately owned property for public purposes under condemnation proceedings upon payment of its reasonable value. See Condemnation.
- Easement
- Land Use and Zoning
- Wills(1) An alphabetical listing in the public records of the names of parties to recorded real estate instruments together with the book and page number of the record. (2) The listing in abstract and title plants of recorded real estate instruments in groups according to land descriptions, known as a geographic index. (3) The alphabetical listing in abstract and title plants, by names of the parties, of all recorded instruments that affect but do not describe particular real estate, such as judgments, powers of attorney, wills and probate proceedings. Such indexes are known by various names, such as "general index", "judgment index" and "name index".
- Trusts
- Power of AttorneyOne who holds a power of attorney from another allowing him or her to execute legal documents such as deeds, mortgages, etc., on behalf of the grantor of the power.
- Probate
- Bankruptcy
- ForeclosureLiterally, to buy back. The act of buying back lands after a mortgage foreclosure, tax foreclosure or other execution sale.
- Tax Law