This program is eligible for 3 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states. In 50-minute states, this program is eligible for 3.6 hours of CLE credit. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules.
Overview
In this interactive course, you will be taken “back to the basics” to discover and digest the most fundamental and important legal bases supporting and governing condominium and homeowner associations. Course topics include the creation and formation of associations; the association’s authority to govern, including the collection of assessments and enforcement of the community documents; and the sales process, including the sales of units to purchasers from the developer and resales from unit owners. A “must” course for those practitioners looking to learn about this fast-evolving field or to refresh your knowledge about the basic legal components of community association law.
Course Topics:
- Creating and Forming Associations
· Form of Ownership
· Requisite Governing Documents
· Applicable Statutory Requirements
- The Association’s Authority: Collections and Enforcement
· Contractual Obligations and Statutory Authority
· Board’s Fiduciary Authority
· Dealing with Defenses and Limitations
- The Sale Process: Initial Sales and Resales
· Developer’s Disclosure Requirements
· Purchaser’s Rights and Remedies
· Resales of Units
Faculty
Carl N. Weiner, Esq.
Mr. Weiner co-chairs the Real Estate and Zoning Department at the Lansdale firm of Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin. For over two decades, he has handled an enormous array of real estate law matters for Delaware Valley clients, ranging from zoning and land development to real-estate financing and acquisition. His work includes the development of over 200 condominium and homeowners’ associations, and he has extensive experience in zoning litigation from numerous appearances before zoning hearing boards and appellate arguments. He has handled zoning cases and subdivision and land-development applications in a majority of townships and boroughs throughout Bucks and Montgomery Counties. He has represented developers, commercial landowners and banks with respect to the acquisition and financing of commercial properties held for future development. His experience also includes structuring multimillion-dollar real-estate acquisitions with contingencies for financing, land development and zoning approvals. A frequent lecturer for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Community Associations Institute and the Montgomery Bar Association (MBA), Mr. Weiner is a past Chairman of the MBA’s Real Estate Land Use Committee, he has served on the MBA Board of Directors and currently serves as President of the Montgomery Bar Foundation. He is also a past president of the Keystone Chapter of the Community Associations Institute. Carl is also a Fellow with the College of Community Association Lawyers. Carl was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2016 through 2023 and also 2021 Lawyer of the Year in the area of Land Use and Zoning Law. A graduate of Boston University School of Law, Mr. Weiner received his undergraduate degree from Brown University.
Steven L. Sugarman, Esq.
Mr. Sugarman is a partner in the law firm, Gawthrop Greenwood, PC, and chairs the firm’s Community Association Law Department. He concentrates his practice in the field of community association law, real estate and construction litigation. Mr. Sugarman is a member of the College of Community Association Lawyers and a past president of the Community Associations Institute (CAI), Pennsylvania/Delaware Valley Chapter. He is a member of the American and Pennsylvania Bar Associations and the American and Pennsylvania Association for Justice. Mr. Sugarman has been awarded Martindale Hubbell’s highest AV preeminent peer review rating and has been selected for inclusion in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® every year since 2007. A former chairman of CAI’s Legislative Action Committee in Pennsylvania, Mr. Sugarman continues to participate actively in the review and drafting of amendments to Pennsylvania’s legislation governing common interest communities, and his writings include the article, “Setting the Standard of Care in Premises Liability Cases,” published in CAI’s Journal of Community Association Law. Mr. Sugarman is an adjunct faculty member at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, where he developed and teaches the course “Condominium and Homeowner Association Law.” He serves as an expert witness on community association matters brought before Pennsylvania’s courts and its General Assembly. A frequent lecturer at the local and national levels on real estate and community association matters, Mr. Sugarman has planned courses and presented numerous programs for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI), including “Assessing the Law of Assessments in Condominium and Homeowner Associations;” “From the Developer to the Association: Tackling the Transition in the Community Association;” “How the Uniform Planned Community Act Really Works;” “Community Association Law Symposium;” “Dealing with Developers’ Liabilities in Condominium and Homeowner Associations;” “New Issues in Condominium and Homeowner Associations: Conflicts and the Courts;” “Dealing with Condominium and Homeowner Associations in a Down Economy;” “Condominium and Homeowner Associations: Lessons on Liabilities, Liens and Litigation;” “Fixing the Failed Development in the Common Interest Community;” “Litigating Condominium and Homeowner Association Cases;” ” The Ins and Outs of “Over 55″ Housing in Community Association;” and “Buying and Selling in Condominiums and Homeowners Associations.” Mr. Sugarman earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his J.D. from Temple University School of Law.
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