Practice Areas
Real Estate
Van Eden Law’s real estate legal services in Stuart, Florida.
Navigating Transactions with Confidence
Buying, selling, or developing property in Florida is an exciting yet complicated endeavor. Whether you are a seasoned investor or a first-time buyer, navigating the intricate legal landscape can be daunting. At Van Eden Law, we take the stress out of real estate transactions by providing comprehensive legal support tailored to your unique needs and goals.
Sage Guidance Across Every Step:
From the initial offer to the closing table, we guide you through every stage of the process, ensuring your transaction is handled smoothly and in your best interests. We have an extensive track record of success in handling a wide range of transactions, including:
- Residential properties:
Whether you are buying your dream home, navigating a competitive market, or selling your current property, we ensure your contract is sound, protecting your interests, at every turn of the process. - Commercial properties:
We handle commercial transactions, with expertise in land use and zoning, environmental evaluations, advice on formation of business ownership structures, financing, lease agreements, and more. - New construction properties:
We review developer and builder contracts, navigating purchasers through the legal aspects of new construction, ensuring developer compliance with contractual obligations and protecting your legal interests - Investment properties:
From multi-unit buildings to vacation rentals, we guide you through the legal intricacies of acquiring and managing investment properties, minimizing risk and maximizing return.
Deciding How Best to Take Title:
We offer guidance in the best manner of taking title according to your specific needs and goals, whether by one of the “legal tenancies” – a tenancy-in-common, a joint tenancy, a tenancy-by-the-entireties (see table comparison below), or with the use of a life estate, a trust or other legal entity such as a corporation or a limited liability company.
Comparison of Concurrent Estates in Land:
| Kind of Tenancy | How Created | Typical Words In Deed Or Will | Unities Present | Interest Owned By Tenant | Power Of Disposition | How Can Disposition Be Made | Rights On Intestacy | How Destroyed |
| Tenancy By The Entirety | By act of the parties, deed or will. | A “to H & W and their heirs.” | Time
Title Interest Possession Person |
Husband and wife as a unit own the whole, joint ownership. | Both husband and wife must join in conveyance. | By deed only and not by will.
Survivorship defeats effect of will. |
Survivor continues to own but in severalty. | Divorce terminates the tenancy and makes them tenants in common. |
| Joint Tenancy | By act of the parties, deed or will. | A “to B & C and their heirs as joint tenants with the right of survivorship and not as tenants in common.” | Time
Title Interest Possession |
All tenants as a unit own the whole, joint ownership. | All may join and dispose of whole or each tenant can dispose of share he did not own as such. | By deed only and not by will.
Survivorship defeats effect of will. |
If only one survivor he continues to own but in severalty. If more than one owner they continue to own in joint tenancy. | 1-One tenant conveys his interest.
2-By partition in kind among tenants. 3-By any act which breaks any unity. |
| Tenancy In Common | By act of the parties, deed, will, or by law. | A “to B and C and their heirs share & share alike as cotenants.” | Possession | Each tenant owns an undivided portion which portions are not necessarily equal. | Each tenant can dispose of his undivided share or part thereof. | By deed or by will. | Heir or heirs inherits undivided interest of deceased co-owner. | 1-By partition among tenants.
2-By uniting all titles in one tenant in severalty by purchase or otherwise. |
International Buyers and Sellers:
Our practice has extensive experience in assisting international buyers and sellers and we are here to help guide you through the issues that are relevant to your transaction such as ownershipentity selection, tax strategies, and IRS compliance.
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