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Washington, D.C. – September 29, 2025 – Becker is proud to announce that Omar Franco, Senior Director and head of the firm’s Federal Lobbying Practice in Washington, D.C., has been honored with the 2025 Top Lobbyist of the Year Award by the Hispanic Lobbyists Association (HLA). Presented as part of […]

The federal government is set to shut down at midnight tomorrow unless lawmakers reach a last-minute funding deal to delay the deadline and buy more time to negotiate a full agreement. Last week, House Republicans passed a short-term funding bill that failed in the Senate, but the House delayed its […]

Q: Can a condominium board member show up at my home and harass me? (K.W., via e-mail) A: “Harassment” in the legal sense is defined in Section 784.048 of the Florida Statutes to include engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that causes substantial emotional distress […]

Under a new Florida law, condominium boards must simultaneously provide a substitute budget when proposing an annual budget that exceeds 115% of the previous year’s budget. This substitute budget must exclude discretionary expenditures not required to be in the budget.

The Marketable Record Title Act (“MRTA”) is set forth in Chapter 712, Florida Statutes, and provides that interests in real property are extinguished after thirty (30) years, with limited exceptions, unless preserved through compliance with Chapter 712. Due to the limited exceptions, MRTA generally does not affect condominium associations and […]