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Thomas C. Valkenet
In the courts of Maryland and D.C.
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I am a 36 year veteran of the Maryland and District of Columbia court systems. There is little that would surprise us!
Practice Areas
- Maritime Law
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Construction Law
- Construction Contracts, Construction Defects, Construction Liens, Construction Litigation
- Insurance Defense
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
Additional Practice Area
- General Civil
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- Free Consultation
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- District of Columbia
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- Maryland
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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Education
- University of Baltimore School of Law
- J.D. | Law
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- Saint Anselm College
- B.A. | Political Science
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Professional Associations
- Maryland Professionalism Center, Inc.
- Instructor, Civil Litigation
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- Activities: Newly admitted lawyers in Maryland must attend a course on Professionalism and ethics. Thomas is an instructor on civility and professionalism in civil litigation.
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- Bow-riding, a reckless practice and already illegal in Maryland.
- Linkedin- Thomas C. Valkenet
- Trial Reporter, "The Limited Appearance in Maryland Civil Litigation"
- The Maryland Association for Justice
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232 Questions Answered
- Q. Can I remove deer stands on my property after boundary disputes with neighbor?
- A: A very common issue. If you have a survey, and are confident of the encroachment, offer to have your neighbor retrieve them. If they don't, do as you will.
The more serious indicator is the removal of markers. If they are pulling survey markers, that is a crime. Do they have a competing survey?
Finally, if you took title after procuring a boundary survey, you may have a title insurance claim. The company would hire someone like me, but at its expense, to investigate and deal with any court filing your neighbor might make to clai ownership of your surveyed land.
As you may have guessed if you have read this far, boundary disputes are fact intensive and must be subject to careful ... Read More
- Q. Can one property owner purchase a common easement?
- A: All is possible, with the express agreement of all having rights in the easement. Consider the ill effects on the other property without benefit of the easements. But easements are extinguished by agreement (and payment of money) all the time.
- Q. Identity and mortgage fraud involving LLC and house sale under my name.
- A: You omit key facts that would permit any opinion. For example, was property acquired in your name improperly? Or was property already owned by you fraudulently transferred by another using your name? And do you know any of the participants in the transactions, personally? This is a complex ball of string, and any lawyer you consult will need much more detail, and opportunity to examine documents filed in the public records (SDAT, land records, etc.). Also, have you retrieved documents from whatever title company conducted a real estate settlement using your identity? I expect the initial round of investigation will take several hours of lawyer time, for anyone looking at this situation.
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