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Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Terminating Joint Ownership of Real Estate

By Gordon Orloff on April 3, 2020
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Over the years a number of clients have asked how to get out of joint ownership of a home or parcel of land when one party cannot buy out the other.  The answer is a court proceeding called a “petition to partition” under G.L. c. 241.

When faced with a petition to partition courts…

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