We Solve Complex Real Estate & Business Disputes Across the Region via the Receivership Remedy
Our Practice Areas
Health & Safety Receiverships
Griswold Law takes control of properties that have been abandoned or have become a health & safety threat to the community.
Partition Referee Matters
When a dispute arises between co-owners of real property, Griswold Law serves as the court-appointed partition referee.
Business Dispute Receiverships
Griswold Law may be appointed by the court to take control of a business that is at the center of a dispute between business partners.
Post-Judgment Receiverships
As a post-judgment receiver, Griswold Law ensures that a court’s orders are fulfilled, even when the judgment debtor is uncooperative.
Rents & Profits Receiverships
With disputed real property in litigation, Griswold Law is routinely appointed by courts to preserve the property and maintain its rents and profits until resolution.
Cannabis Receiverships
Struggling cannabis companies must abide by different laws than most businesses in California, and Griswold Law often steps in as a court-appointed receiver in the event of business failures.
Griswold Law solves problems across the region when drastic measures are required.
- Appointed over 250 times in courts across 29 different counties
- Consistently appointed in a variety of legal scenarios, including health & safety receivership, partition referee, tenant habitability receiver, post-judgment receiver, and rents/profits receiver
- Appointed as a receiver in business disputes to take operational control of businesses during litigation
- Substantial experience taking control of troubled real estate assets, including houses, apartments, motels, and failed developments
- Focus on commercial properties, multi-family, hoarding, nuisance/drug activity, slum motels/apartments, illegal conversions, and abandoned properties
Meet the Team
Richardson “Red” Griswold
CEO, Receiver/Attorney
Jamie Eberhardt
Managing Director of Receivership Operations
Neil Sheaffer
Managing Attorney
Jarrod Ready
Staff Attorney
Markus Woods
Staff Attorney
Casey Fashouer
Senior Project Manager
Kim Tate
Director of Marketing and Special Projects
Gabrielle Ritter
Paralegal
Leslie Garcia
Receivership Property Manager
Matthew Anselmo
Receivership Administrator/Bookkeeper
Case Studies
News
- Nevada Assembly Bill Introduced to Advocate for Health and Safety Receivership RemedyClark County officials have presented a transformative bill to Nevada state lawmakers aimed at combating the alarming negligence of landlords who fail to address dangerous living conditions, endangering tenant health and safety. The newly proposed Assembly Bill 211 amends existing language and revises provisions related to substandard properties, advocating for… Read more »
- Richardson Griswold to Hold Roundtable Sessions for CACEORichardson "Red" Griswold is excited to lead three impactful Roundtable sessions, hosted by the California Association of Code Enforcement Officers (CACEO), set for March and April. Read more »
Blog
- Public Nuisance Law: Collaboration with Enforcement OfficialsHealth and Safety Receiverships are a remedy for distressed properties, which are known as a public nuisance under the law. In a receivership, a receiver is appointed by the court to revitalize nuisance properties after a lawsuit has been filed against the property owner. In these situations under public nuisance… Read more »
- Health & Safety Receivership Leads to Successful Property Turnaround in FresnoA successful health & safety receivership restores order to a long-neglected residential property. After years of unresolved code violations and deteriorating conditions, a single family home in Fresno is now secure, cleaned out, and poised for sale—thanks to the use of a health and safety receivership. Read more »
Richardson “Red” Griswold acts as a court-appointed Receiver and court-appointed Partition Referee in California. Mr. Griswold has been appointed by over 200 California courts in 22 different California counties. He is a licensed California attorney, as well as a licensed California real estate broker. Mr. Griswold was the 2019 Chair/President of the California Receivers Forum.
