TITLE RESEARCH
First and foremost, in connection with real property transactions or litigation, any effective engagement with land title issues must be based on complete, correct research. The primary resource for land title information is always the public records maintained in County Recorders’ offices, supplemented by maps and records kept by County Assessors’ and County Surveyors’ offices. Title insurance companies and their issuing agents compile proprietary indexes to these public records, but their information retrieval systems, and their employees’ skills in using them, are often not perfectly reliable. My skill and experience in direct public records research is second to none. In more than forty years of professional work, I have conducted land title records research projects in dozens of California counties. My researches provide results that are completely reliable, unimpeachable, and beyond reproach.
Moreover, my research capabilities extend far beyond the County public records, to which title companies limit themselves. Especially with regard to land use considerations, and in real property litigation, information kept by various State and Federal agencies, in the National Archives, in university libraries, in private land surveyors’ offices, and by historical societies, can be of great importance. I am experienced in accessing all these resources as well, and I’m able to effectively correlate and marshal evidence drawn from all these sources in support of my clients’ causes.