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Meeting Minutes: Are Your HOA or Condo Association’s Minutes Adequate?
They seem almost like an afterthought; perhaps they are. Minutes of board of director meetings and member meetings are a chore to prepare, possibly even a drudge. But they are critically important to your subdivision homeowners' association or condominium association....
“Me Too” Evidence Addressed by Missouri Supreme Court for Discrimination Lawsuits
The Missouri Supreme Court has just issued a major ruling on whether "me too" evidence is admissible in an employment discrimination lawsuit brought pursuant to the Missouri Human Rights Act. The case involves an age discrimination claim brought by a former employee...
Adverse Possession: When Your Property Isn’t Yours Anymore
One of our attorneys' neighbors, who purchased land from the lawyer to build a home, recently put up a fence in the backyard between the properties. (Just an aside: the fence was not built because the attorney's family makes a bad neighbor, but was put up because the...
Easements: Rights and Obligations of the Respective Parties
Many of us have observed a utility, such as the electric company, trimming trees away from the company's lines on our property and may have thought, what gives the utility company the right to come onto my private property? The simple answer is what is called an...