Goforth & Lucas, A Law Partnership

Chris Lucas has been busy in court this year, to save property taken by forged documents recorded against our 88 year old client's home by a supposedly trusted advisor. False instruments are a bad thing. Do not let your older relatives be exploited by manipulators. Old age can be lonely and the mental defenses are weakened. There are sly predators at work, very smart, hard to beat in court. That is why, call Chris .

Chris Lucas is litigating theft of our client’s home by financial elder abuse. The truly criminal predators are not truly savvy about title questions, and no match for Chris’s knowledge and experience. But they are masters of deception and evasion and exploitation of the courts, and file disingenuous papers which beg every question. Their prey are unwitting and vulnerable elder victims who have unknowingly signed over title to their homes, by signatures on documents cleverly inserted into stacks of otherwise valid documents such as purchase or refinance.

Christopher R. Lucas at Goforth and Lucas, is still Working HARD on quiet title cases. These legal actions require a court filing and sometimes service of summons, publication in the paper. Leftover liens or deeds of trust which once secured mortgages that were paid down need to be re conveyed meaning signed off by the lender once the loan is paid. What happened a lot in the subprime loan period, loans written off, but the securing deeds of trust remain as clouds on title that only court action can clear. Do not wait until there is an escrow open on a property you need to sell only to find that your buyer cannot get title insurance. Better call Chris.

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Bay Area remodel work going gangbusters- watch out for unlicensed contractors. They are out there with misappropriated licenses, and lack of training and judgment can be devastating. Because we are disposed to invest in upgrades when our home values are sky high, there are lots of competing estimates available. Your real estate and construction attorney Chris Lucas warns you- watch out for deliberate under bids designed to entice you into a remodel contract which the con...tractor then delays and forces extensions and increases the price by multiple change orders. This was intended all along by the contractor who obtains the job with a low estimate they do not intend to honor. When time for agreed completion has long passed and the price has increased, time to call Chris to straighten out the contract and use the law and regulations to get it finished as agreed. Since this may cost the contractor, you need an expert attorney to lay down the law. See more

Watch out for the underbid home improvement proposal from the contractor! Underbidding is against the law! With property values so high and very few who want to sell (and leave the Bay Area? Forget it!) many of us are willing to upgrade our homes with "Home Improvement Contracts". Licensed general contractors are all too happy to make your former suburban bungalow into your dream house with gleaming new bathrooms and kitchens. At a price. BUT the frenzy to remodel and upgrad...e brings out the worst type of scheme by the crafty and unethical vultures who always abound in times of economic upswing: unethical contractors with a fraud in mind. Their bid for the work is 30- 40% less than your other proposals, and yet this low bid contractor says he or she can finish quick and seems legitimate. But by the time the first completion date arrives, the home improvements are not half done and the extras have been piled on unsustainably, yet to replace the contractor promises even bigger losses. CALL CHRIS FIRST. And if you get stuck with an unethical contractor like a cat on a hot tin roof, the best bet is to fire him and complain to the Contractors State Licensing Board-- and call Chris. The situation will not improve without expert legal help. See more

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Sinister live view of well, the literal translation is Devil Mt. But as named on old maps meant heap of trouble.

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Your devoted attorneys Michael Goforth and Christopher R. Lucas HAVE MOVED to NEW DIGS: 2001 Salvio St. Number 25, CONCORD Near vibrant Todos Santos Plaza what a scene ... Come see us dear clients and beloved friends THE real estate and construction specialist Chris Lucas will quiet your title as to old liens or other persons' claims and you will be glad you did, it is a bullish property market out there!!! See more