This article was inspired by a discussion with a colleague who works in financing mortgage banking. He mentioned that title companies were starting to get very careful about Florida durable power of attorney problems when handling a Florida real estate transaction. We speculated that title and escrow companies were becoming wary of these powers of […] Read more
Florida Power of Attorney
We tend to think of the word “attorney” as a synonym for “lawyer.” And, for the most part, that’s usually the case. Technically speaking, though, an “attorney” is an individual empowered to act on behalf of someone else, and it doesn’t always have to refer to a lawyer. An “attorney in fact,” for instance, is […] Read more
