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Community Update – October 2020

10.30.2020
Mark D. FriedmanJay RobertsDonna DiMaggio BergerDavid G. MullerJennifer L. Biletnikoff

The 2020 Legislative Guide is here! Florida’s 2020 Session produced a bevy of newly passed community association legislation including the long-awaited criminalization of fraudulent emotional support animal requests. New laws regarding registration requirements for “55 and over” communities, rights for HOA residents to use fireworks on the 4th of July, […]

Areas of Focus: Condo, Co-Op & HOA, Florida Community Association

Becker’s Washington Weekly: Week of October 26, 2020

10.29.2020
Anthony BedellOmar FrancoBert GómezAlfonso LopezClarence WilliamsAmanda L. Wood

The Elections That Will Determine Control of the Senate For the first time since 2014, control of what has been called the world’s greatest deliberative body – the United States Senate – feels truly up for grabs. The Senate of the current 116th Congress is comprised of 53 Republicans and […]

Areas of Focus: Federal Lobbying, Government Law & Lobbying

Closings During COVID-19: How RON Has Forever Changed The Real Estate Industry

10.29.2020

Just months prior to the pandemic, the title and legal industry made some tremendous strides toward virtual closings. Florida’s remote online notarization (“RON”) law, passed in July 2019, went into effect January 1, 2020. Normally, new technology takes time to implement; however,  lockdown/quarantine requirements allowed Becker and Becker Title to […]

Areas of Focus: Real Estate, Real Estate Acquisitions and Sales