REAL ESTATE LAW
Mr. Hirschhorn has over 17 years of experience in Real Estate law, and has helped clients in various matters:
Purchase and Sale Disputes. When buying or selling a house, disputes may arise. Is your seller forcing you to close despite some defect? Is the buyer backing out after all contingencies are clear? Did you buy a house and discover a latent defect? Was something misrepresented? Mr. Hirschhorn specializes in resolving these and other home purchase disuptes.
Purchase, Sale, Lease, and Contract Review. Mr. Hirschhorn works with buyers, sellers, realtors, and title companies to ensure that the parties rights are being protected. We draft addendums, easements, and agreements to facilitate the sale of real property. When appropriate, we work with a title attorney who provides a title opinion to ensure that title will be properly conveyed.
Enrcoachments, Easements, and Adverse Posession. Good fences make good neighbors. But sometimes there are no fences, or the neighbor is trying to build a bad fence on your property. Are you being denied access to a right of way or easement? Is your neighbor threatening to cut down your rose bushes that have been there for 20 years? Don't let it turn into a Hatfeild/McCoy situation. Mr. Hirschhorn and his team work hard to resolve real property issues.
Inherited Real Property. Did you recently inherit property and you want to sell or divide it? Do you think you inherited property but you're not sure? Did your rich grandfather die and now there are 20 people who all own a piece of a property? Family members sometimes resort to fighting and arguing about inherited property. Whether there is or is not a will, Mr. Hirschhorn works to resolve inherited property disputes.
Landlord. We draft and enforce lease agreements, perform efficient evictions, and can get possession back so that your property rights are restored. Whether the problem is non-payment of rent or material breach of the lease, we’ll get unruly tenants notified and served so that you are returned to possession.
Tenant. The most common issue we encounter is a lazy landlord’s failure to make repairs to the premises. We have successfully been able to avoid eviction for many clients and convince landlords to cooperate with tenants and perform necessary repairs. In cases where tenants have been harassed, we have been able to obtain judgments against landlords.
Mold. Is there mold in your house, apartment, or office rental? Have you been told by the landlord that there is nothing they can do or that they don't see any mold? Are they blaming the mold on you? Have you had a flood or plumbing problem in your house or office and the insurance company is denying coverage of the mold under a policy exclusion? Mr. Hirschhorn has had success getting clients results in mold cases. The sooner you engage Mr. Hirschhorn in a mold case, the better.
Foreclosure Eviction. Are you being evicted due to a foreclosure? We negotiate with the servicer and law firm that’s working to get you out. Many of our clients are able to stay for six months or longer, and receive settlements from the servicer to assist them in relocation. We know the law, and we stand up to the banks to give you a little breathing room. Sometimes our work means the difference between finding an apartment and being homeless. Call us as soon as you find out you’re being evicted, so that we can help.
Action of Ejectment. Do you have a guest that won’t leave? Is there a family member who you let stay with you but who has overstayed their welcome? Eviction can be a slow process, and sometimes take months to complete. Some of our clients have adult family members staying with them who are abusing drugs and alcohol, threatening violence, or engaging in illegal activities. You don’t have to live with that in your house. Ejectment is an expedited way to make someone leave who doesn’t have permission to stay there. If there was no rental agreement, and they’ve never paid you any rent, we can get them gone in less than half the time of a standard unlawful detainer eviction.
Quiet Title. If you're purchaing or selling a property and the title company says you can't get clear title because of a title defect, we work hard to get that cleared up so you can close. Often times this can happen without litigation.
FAMILY LAW
Highly Contested or Complex Divorce. Breaking up is hard to do, but it doesn’t always have to be. Some of our clients are able to do agreed divorces. Other clients have conflict to resolve with their soon to be ex-spouses. Whatever the case, we offer reasonable but firm representation to our clients. We make sure our clients receive a fair and equitable distribution of marital assets, and when appropriate see that they receive (or pay) a reasonable amount of alimony and child support.
Orders of Protection. Nothing says I love you like an OP. If you are defending an Order of Protection, Mr. Hirschhorn can help resolve it, usually without a trail and final judgment being enetered. Mr. Hirschhorn uses diplomacy to get the best results possible. Sometimes one spouse is using an order of protection in a divorce. Does that sound familiar? Call Mr. Hirschhorn for a consultation and see what your options are.
Agreements. Separation, Prenuptial, Post-nuptial, Marital Dissolution. We draft sensible agreements that couples (or divorcees) can live with. Yes, we do agreed divorces.
INSURANCE CLAIMS
Do you have a claim for property damage, fire or flood, commercial or residential? Is your insurance company's adjuster refusing to settle? Are they low balling you and only paying out part of what your property or structure damage should be?
Insurance companies frequently slow pay, low pay, and flat out deny to pay valid claims.
Mr. Hirschhorn has a track record of success getting maximum value claim settlements. No matter what kind of insurance claim, no matter where you are in the claim process, the sooner your retain Mr. Hirschhorn, the sonner the insurance company starts getting reasonable.
In some cases, if the insurance company doesn't cooperate, they are liable for attorneys fees for up to 25% of the claim amount!
Recent outcomes in cases include payouts over 700k, policy maximum payouts, and payouts that are double the insurance company's initial offer to settle. We can't guarantee those results in every case, but those are recent results we have obtained.
CIVIL LITIGATION
Some lawyers take your case and try to settle it quickly without much work. We’re different; we litigate. Our clients get results because we do the hard work. We do the legal research, develop a winning strategy, file appropriate pleadings, and argue our case in court. We have successfully represented clients with unsettled insurance claims, failed real estate transactions, car deals gone bad, and more. How do we do it? We litigate.
CONTRACT LAW
We are skilled in contract drafting, review, and negotiation. Our agreements are readable, understandable, and enforceable. Once retained, we quickly review contracts from received from other firms or create drafts of our own. Clients have full access to Mr. Hirschhorn and his office staff, and their business goals are translated into an enforceable, working agreement.
Mr. Hirschhorn also focuses on contract enforcement and pursues recovery of damages for contract breaches.