Business and Corporate Law

• Business Transactions
  9. SMOKE AND CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTOR COMPLIANCE. We call your attention to the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 148, You may be required to execute a certification at the closing that you have inspected the installation of the smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and are satisfied as to compliance with this law. You should contact the sellers and ensure that they have obtained, and will bring with them, a current certification from the city or town fire department relative to the installation of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. The foregoing may not apply in certain commercial transactions. If you are unsure of the applicability of this law, please check with your counsel or contact our office.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Our Reading, Massachusetts office, located just minutes north of Boston, Coleman Law Office, P.C. has been providing exceptional service to our clients for over 25 years. Our firm specializes in real estate law and estate administration. We work closely with our clients to gain a thorough understanding of their objectives and to respond to changing circumstances and demanding time requirements. We hope that this website will help you familiarize yourself with our personnel, areas of practice, and firm philosophy. Please call us or e-mail us.
• Real Estate Transactions
  10. FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN REAL PROPERTY TAX ACT OF 1980 AS AMENDED: This Federal Law places special requirements for tax reporting and withholding on the parties to a real estate transaction under certain circumstances as set forth in the law. You should seek the advice of your attorney or accountant concerning the effect of this Act on this transaction. You will be required to execute a copy of the enclosed certification under penalty of perjury at the closing. If you do not plan on attending the closing, please be sure that your attorney or agent delivers the fully completed and executed copy of the affidavit along with the deed. The closing attorney for the firm can not and will not provide information, advice or opinions regarding the Act’s applicability to you or to this transaction.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS INTENDED ONLY TO GIVE A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE THREE COMMON WAYS OF HOLDING TITLE AND IS NOT PROVIDED FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADVISING YOU HOW TO TAKE TITLE. IF FURTHER INFORMATION IS DESIRED ABOUT CREDITORS RIGHTS AGAINST THE TITLE, ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES WITH RESPECT TO ESTATE PLANNING AND OTHER PRACTICALITIES, YOU SHOULD SEEK LEGAL COUNSEL FROM YOUR ATTORNEY OR RETAIN AN ATTORNEY FOR ADVICE IN THESE MATTERS.
• Power of Attorney
  Coleman Law Office, P.C. also provides advice and services to the smaller estate including preparation of wills, basic trusts, powers of attorney and health care proxies. Our attorneys provide thoughtful advice to a variety of clients from different backgrounds with different needs.

Finance Law

• Foreclosure
  Even though the buyer may be asked to pay for the lender's title insurance protection, the lender's policy of title insurance does not protect the buyer and a claim can only be made if the lender suffers a financial loss because of a title defect that adversely affects a foreclosure of the buyer's mortgage. There have been many of defects in titles which could not be revealed by an examination of the public records. These defects usually arise at a time after the transaction has taken place and purchasers can suffer significant losses as a result of them. That is why owner's title insurance makes a great deal of sense.
• Tax Law
  Title Abstract - Includes the physical review of the title to your property in the Registries of Deeds and Probate, including bankruptcy and tax matters where available.