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COVID-19: A Message to our clients

As the wide-spread impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus) is evolving, we at Goldman & Pease are taking active measures to protect the well-being of our employees, clients, guests, and the community at large, while also ensuring that we will continue to meet our clients’ legal needs. From remote work, to telecommuting, to online and teleconferences court appearances, we have in place systems to minimize the risk of transmission related to firm business. As a small, close-knit group of litigators and providers of

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Coronavirus: What Steps Should Condo Associations take?

Community associations are wisely thinking about how to meet daily responsibilities while mitigating the spread of this virus. According to the CDC’s current information, person-to-person spread is occurring between people in close contact (within about 6 feet), through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes.  Some spread might be possible before people show symptoms, but this is currently not thought to be the main way the virus spreads. While there are still unknowns about the virus’s transmission, Goldman

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Airbnb Legislative Update: Massachusetts’ New Rules

By: Howard S. Goldman, Esq.* – Airbnb – you either love it or you hate it. With roughly 1 in 10 U.S. adults using short-term accommodations, their popularity is undeniable. And for the millions who vacation in Massachusetts each year, short-term rental sites offer a wide range of price points in a state notorious for its lack of mid-priced accommodations at premier tourist draws: Boston, Cape Cod, and the Berkshires. But other populations are decidedly less enamored by the ascent of

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Wednesday, February 12, 2020 – Legal Marijuana Update

Current State 33 states, D.C., Guam, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands have legalized medical marijuana 11 states and D.C. have legalized recreational use October 2018 Canada legalized marijuana federally, being the first G7 country to do so Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled marijuana prohibition unconstitutional, paving the way for federal legalization Recent Pew Poll shows that 67% of Americans think all marijuana use should be legalized, 91% support legalizing medical marijuana Farm Bill signed in 2018 legalizes hemp production in

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Evicting a Problem Tenant

By: Howard S. Goldman and Eric T. Thulin Most residential landlord/tenant relationships begin and end without any problems or concerns. However, when landlords find themselves dealing with a tenant who continuously violates the terms and conditions of the tenancy, the landlord often feels like they are without recourse. Massachusetts is an extremely tenant-friendly state with a long history of statutes and case precedent which has enhanced the rights of tenants and made it very difficult for landlords to sustain and succeed

Read More »

New England Condominium – How Will Your Community Be Affected?

Attorney Howard Goldman was quoted extensively in the the New England Condominium article “Legal & Legislative Update 2019 – How Will Your Community Be Affected?   By A.J. Sidranksy | New England Condominium Laws, and the legal decisions that support and enforce them, are constantly evolving and can affect every facet of community life in HOAs, condominiums and co-ops. While law and legal cases can emanate from any of our three levels of government – federal, state or local – most

Read More »

Appeals Court Holds Condominium Developer’s Lender Cannot Foreclose on Common Areas

Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Appeals Court held that a bank that loaned money to a condominium developer and gave each unit buyer a partial mortgage discharge upon purchase did not have a remaining mortgage interest in undeveloped common areas of the Condominium. Specifically, in Trustees of the Beechwood Village Condominium Trust vs. USAlliance Federal Credit Union, No. 18-P-89, the Massachusetts Appeals Court stated: “We conclude that all of the land associated with the condominium development, including the common area, was

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Obtained permanent, exclusive, easement against neighboring property.

Our clients’ driveway and garden areas encroached onto their neighbors’ land, leading to a contentious dispute. We filed an adverse possession and prescriptive easement action in the Land Court seeking to assert our clients’ rights to the disputed portions. We further recorded a Notice of Lis Pendens with the Registry of Deeds to encumber the neighbors’ property pending resolution of the matter. The neighbors filed a competing quiet title action in the Land Court seeking to obtain the court’s declaration that

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Goldman & Pease LLC mentioned in Washington Post article on Airbnb

On September 7, 2018, the Washington Post published an article in its Opinions section entitled “D.C. should learn from Arlington’s mistakes on Airbnb regulations”. The article discusses short-term, Airbnb-style rentals, and notes that despite regulations by Arlington County prohibiting such rentals without a permit, 90% of rentals in the County appear to be unpermitted after rules promulgated by the D.C. Council in December 2016 required permits. Goldman & Pease LLC, who has been closely monitoring this trend and publishing articles on

Read More »

Pre-Judgment Trustee Process Bank Account Attachment of Over $150,000.00 Makes Funds Available For Satisfaction of A Judgment for a Home Health Care Agency

Goldman & Pease, LLC successfully represented a Home Health Care Agency, who was retained by an elderly customer to provide 24/7 around the clock home health care services. The services were rendered by the Home Health Care Agency for approximately 4 months, leaving an unpaid principal balance due of over $84,000.00 which was not paid despite repeated demand. At the time of the commencement of the case, Goldman & Pease, LLC sought and obtained a trustee process bank account attachment against

Read More »

COVID-19: A Message to our clients

As the wide-spread impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus) is evolving, we at Goldman & Pease are taking active measures to protect the well-being of our employees, clients, guests, and the community at large, while also ensuring that we will continue to meet our clients’ legal needs. From remote work, to telecommuting, to online and teleconferences court appearances, we have in place systems to minimize the risk of transmission related to firm business. As a small, close-knit group of litigators and providers of

Read More »

Coronavirus: What Steps Should Condo Associations take?

Community associations are wisely thinking about how to meet daily responsibilities while mitigating the spread of this virus. According to the CDC’s current information, person-to-person spread is occurring between people in close contact (within about 6 feet), through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes.  Some spread might be possible before people show symptoms, but this is currently not thought to be the main way the virus spreads. While there are still unknowns about the virus’s transmission, Goldman

Read More »

Airbnb Legislative Update: Massachusetts’ New Rules

By: Howard S. Goldman, Esq.* – Airbnb – you either love it or you hate it. With roughly 1 in 10 U.S. adults using short-term accommodations, their popularity is undeniable. And for the millions who vacation in Massachusetts each year, short-term rental sites offer a wide range of price points in a state notorious for its lack of mid-priced accommodations at premier tourist draws: Boston, Cape Cod, and the Berkshires. But other populations are decidedly less enamored by the ascent of

Read More »

Wednesday, February 12, 2020 – Legal Marijuana Update

Current State 33 states, D.C., Guam, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands have legalized medical marijuana 11 states and D.C. have legalized recreational use October 2018 Canada legalized marijuana federally, being the first G7 country to do so Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled marijuana prohibition unconstitutional, paving the way for federal legalization Recent Pew Poll shows that 67% of Americans think all marijuana use should be legalized, 91% support legalizing medical marijuana Farm Bill signed in 2018 legalizes hemp production in

Read More »

Evicting a Problem Tenant

By: Howard S. Goldman and Eric T. Thulin Most residential landlord/tenant relationships begin and end without any problems or concerns. However, when landlords find themselves dealing with a tenant who continuously violates the terms and conditions of the tenancy, the landlord often feels like they are without recourse. Massachusetts is an extremely tenant-friendly state with a long history of statutes and case precedent which has enhanced the rights of tenants and made it very difficult for landlords to sustain and succeed

Read More »

New England Condominium – How Will Your Community Be Affected?

Attorney Howard Goldman was quoted extensively in the the New England Condominium article “Legal & Legislative Update 2019 – How Will Your Community Be Affected?   By A.J. Sidranksy | New England Condominium Laws, and the legal decisions that support and enforce them, are constantly evolving and can affect every facet of community life in HOAs, condominiums and co-ops. While law and legal cases can emanate from any of our three levels of government – federal, state or local – most

Read More »

Appeals Court Holds Condominium Developer’s Lender Cannot Foreclose on Common Areas

Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Appeals Court held that a bank that loaned money to a condominium developer and gave each unit buyer a partial mortgage discharge upon purchase did not have a remaining mortgage interest in undeveloped common areas of the Condominium. Specifically, in Trustees of the Beechwood Village Condominium Trust vs. USAlliance Federal Credit Union, No. 18-P-89, the Massachusetts Appeals Court stated: “We conclude that all of the land associated with the condominium development, including the common area, was

Read More »

Obtained permanent, exclusive, easement against neighboring property.

Our clients’ driveway and garden areas encroached onto their neighbors’ land, leading to a contentious dispute. We filed an adverse possession and prescriptive easement action in the Land Court seeking to assert our clients’ rights to the disputed portions. We further recorded a Notice of Lis Pendens with the Registry of Deeds to encumber the neighbors’ property pending resolution of the matter. The neighbors filed a competing quiet title action in the Land Court seeking to obtain the court’s declaration that

Read More »

Goldman & Pease LLC mentioned in Washington Post article on Airbnb

On September 7, 2018, the Washington Post published an article in its Opinions section entitled “D.C. should learn from Arlington’s mistakes on Airbnb regulations”. The article discusses short-term, Airbnb-style rentals, and notes that despite regulations by Arlington County prohibiting such rentals without a permit, 90% of rentals in the County appear to be unpermitted after rules promulgated by the D.C. Council in December 2016 required permits. Goldman & Pease LLC, who has been closely monitoring this trend and publishing articles on

Read More »

Pre-Judgment Trustee Process Bank Account Attachment of Over $150,000.00 Makes Funds Available For Satisfaction of A Judgment for a Home Health Care Agency

Goldman & Pease, LLC successfully represented a Home Health Care Agency, who was retained by an elderly customer to provide 24/7 around the clock home health care services. The services were rendered by the Home Health Care Agency for approximately 4 months, leaving an unpaid principal balance due of over $84,000.00 which was not paid despite repeated demand. At the time of the commencement of the case, Goldman & Pease, LLC sought and obtained a trustee process bank account attachment against

Read More »
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