You listed your Fort Greene brownstone for $3.4 million in early September. Two days before closing, your title company calls with bad news: a mechanic's lien for $187,000 just landed on the property. The contractor you fired eight weeks ago — the one who walked off the job with half the roof unfinished — filed the lien through his lawyer, and your buyer is threatening to back out. A mechanic's lien on your NYC home doesn't just freeze a sale. It can derail a refinance, block

Your mother left her Park Slope brownstone to you and your two siblings in equal shares. One sibling lives there rent-free, won't pay the property taxes, and refuses every offer to sell. The building is worth $3.8 million. You've inherited an asset you can't touch — and a family fight you can't end with a phone call. A partition action in New York is the legal tool that breaks that deadlock. If you're a co-owner of New York real estate and the other owners won't sell, won't b

In a recent decision, the New York Court of Appeals unraveled a complex web of legalities in the Erie-Wyoming Dam Lawsuit. Specifically,...