Page 15 - Property Code News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

AUSTIN — A bill to make it easier to remove racist restrictions from real estate deeds would be named the Royce West Act under a last-minute amendment approved by the House Monday. West, D-Dallas, is lead author of Senate Bill 30, which the House approved, 146-0. It would dispense with an arduous, time-consuming and expensive process that current laws require for removing deed language that ...

Dear PAO, We are planning to start a laundry business with a certain trademark. When we conducted our personal research, it appeared that our intended trademark was still free for use. To save our operating cost, we decided to cut our legal expenses relative to the processing of our trademark. We later learned that there are two ways of acquiring ownership over a trademark, i.e., either through prior use or through registration.  Unfortunately, we got only confused by these. Hence, we seek your legal opinion on the rule on acquiring trademark ownership. Diana Dear Diana, Under the law, speci...

Denton City Council member Deb Armintor has proposed a relief package that would prohibit landlords from posting notices to vacate to tenants — a legal prerequisite in the eviction process — and subsequent measures designed to preempt what she feels would become a crisis here after the federal moratorium on evictions expires on Dec. 31. In a procedural move on Thursday, when she and other council members are scheduled to meet, she will ask her colleagues for a one-minute emergency proposal on what she calls LEEP, or Local Emergency Eviction Prohibition. Council members, in such a sc...