In California, a Health and Safety Receivership is an effective option to resolve code enforcement issues with residential and commercial properties. Health and Safety Receiverships commonly deal with substandard or abandoned properties when property owners fail to...
The partition remedy in California addresses disputes between co-owners of property. Any person with an interest in real property in California may bring a partition action against a co-owner. The partition remedy is necessary when co-owners cannot decide how to...
In 2014, Griswold Law will be getting back to consistent blog-posting. To get back up to speed, we wanted to let you all know what we were up to in 2013. Griswold Law 2013 Highlights: · Mr. Griswold successfully argued before the California Court of...
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the word “retaliate” as “to repay (as an injury) in kind; to get revenge.” In the workplace, employers unfortunately retaliate against their own employees for many reasons. Fortunately for aggrieved...
How does one differentiate between an “independent contractor” and an “employee”? Can companies and individuals elect to be treated one way or the other? The IRS identifies three different categories to differentiate whether a person is an employee or an independent...
Section 2938 of the California Civil Code requires commercial tenants to pay their rent to the creditor of their landlord when a landlord defaults on its obligations to its creditor under certain circumstances. The general principle is that if a landlord defaults...
