Rowhome Property Damage Attorneys Serving Radnor, PA

Often more than one party: the contractor doing the work, the developer or owner who hired them, and sometimes an engineer or the party's insurer. Pennsylvania law also puts duties on an excavating owner toward the adjoining property. Sorting out who pays starts with the permits, plans, and an assessment of what physically caused the damage.

Photograph everything with dates, keep any earlier photos of the same areas, write down when you first noticed each problem, and report it in writing rather than by phone. If the work next door is permitted, the filings are public. Do not sign a release or accept a repair check before someone has looked at the full extent of the damage.

No. Homeowners policies often exclude earth movement while still covering other causes, and how the loss is characterized frequently decides the claim. We review the policy language against what actually happened, and we handle the bad-faith side of these disputes as well.

Yes, an old lien, a missing heir's signature, or a boundary discrepancy can hold up a closing indefinitely until it's resolved through a negotiated release, a quiet title action, or litigation.

Often yes. A professional survey combined with a negotiated agreement between neighboring owners resolves most boundary disputes without litigation, we reserve court action for cases where a fair resolution isn't otherwise realistic.

A sheriff sale is typically the final step in a foreclosure or judgment-collection process, and by the time it's scheduled, options for stopping it narrow significantly. Speaking with an attorney as early as possible preserves the most options.

Residential tenancies are heavily protected by state and municipal landlord-tenant statutes, while commercial leases are governed almost entirely by their own negotiated terms. That difference changes which arguments are available to either side.

Radnor sits in Delaware County, so a state court matter goes to the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas, in Media. Federal claims are heard in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Radnor is a Main Line township with corporate offices, university campuses and established residential neighborhoods. Whatever the matter, it is filed and heard in Media, though an initial case review does not happen at the courthouse. Court appearances come later, and not every matter reaches one.

Yes. Commercial leases are governed almost entirely by their own negotiated terms, while residential tenancies are heavily protected by state and municipal landlord-tenant statutes. Radnor Township holds corporate offices, university campuses and established residential neighborhoods, so both kinds of dispute come up here regularly. Which one a matter falls under changes the arguments available to either side.

Usually without court. A professional survey combined with a negotiated agreement between neighboring owners resolves most boundary disputes, and in Radnor's established residential neighborhoods the argument is often about a wall, a hedge or a driveway that has sat in the same place for decades. We reserve court action for cases where a fair resolution is not otherwise realistic.

A sheriff sale is typically the final step in a foreclosure or judgment-collection process, and by the time it is scheduled, options for stopping it narrow significantly. Radnor sits in Delaware County, so that is where the underlying foreclosure or judgment case lives. Speaking with an attorney as early as possible preserves the most options, which means calling when that case starts rather than when the sale is advertised.