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The Law Office of Richard A. Klass, Esq.

Providing legal services to individuals, families, businesses and other law firms.
Attorneys admitted to New York and New Jersey.

Areas of Practice

• Abandoned property petitions and litigation
• Bankruptcy (Chapters 7, 11 and 13; for both debtor and creditor)
• Debt Collection
  • Attorney fee collection
  • Consumer and commercial debt collection
  • Enforcement of Judgments
  • Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (prosecution and defense)
• Family Law and Matrimonial Law
  • Family law, including child custody and visitation, Orders of Protection, child support, and private placement adoptions
  • Matrimonial law, including divorce, annulment, and prenuptial and separation agreements
  • Name change applications
• Insurance and no-fault benefits
• Legal Malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, attorney negligence
• Litigation: commercial and general litigation
  • Civil Appeals, both Federal and State courts
  • Federal Court litigation
• Personal injury
• Medical Malpractice
• Workers Compensation ("Worker's Comp")
• Real estate litigation
• Foreclosure: mortgage and lien foreclosure
• Foreclosure: residential and commercial litigation and assistance
• Property damage
• Real estate transactions: for real property, condominiums, and cooperative units
• Wills and Probate; administration of decedent's estates

And those cases that do not fit into a "pigeon hole."

New issue of Law CURRENTS

A quarterly newsletter written and published by Richard Klass.

The (Property) Bonds of Matrimony That Can’t Be Broken. Spring 2010

Two sisters and their respective husbands decided to purchase a two-family house in The Bronx in 1995. At the closing, they took title to the property, reflected on the Deed, as follows: “Gilberto Hernandez and Consolacion Hernandez, his wife …. And Erlinda Que and Elpidio Rodriguez, her husband.” Erlinda executed her Last Will and Testament, in which she devised her “half share and interest in the real property” to her sister, Consolacion, and her husband, Elpidio, in equal shares. In December 2000, Erlinda passed away, survived by her husband, Elpidio. For a long time after Erlinda’s death, Elpidio and his deceased wife’s sister continued to maintain the house. At some point, he remarried and wanted to sell it and move. And, when they all couldn’t agree on how to accomplish this, a lawsuit was initiated called a “Partition and Sale” action. In this type of lawsuit, the parties ask a judge to order the property sold at auction....(more)

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