News, Events, & Publications

As the legal landscape continues to evolve, our team offers unique perspectives and insights on the challenges our clients will face now and in the future.

Community Association Law

Community Matters – Fall 2015 Edition

The Fall 2015 edition of Lueder, Larkin & Hunter's community association newsletter Community Matters is now available! Community Matters is published on a quarterly basis, and if you would like hard copies, we can make those available for you as well. This edition features several helpful articles on the following topics: Helping communities prepare for upcoming Annual Meetings (by David C. Boy, IV); the tricky subject of computing interest on assessments (by Evan Conroy); who is liable...

Read More...

Community Matters – Summer 2015 Edition

Lueder, Larkin & Hunter's community association newsletter Community Matters was offered to our participants at the 2015 Board Boot Camp and is now available online.  Community Matters will be published on our website on a quarterly basis.  This edition features a case law update on Chapter 7 bankruptcy and "lien stripping" (by Daniel Melchi) and an article discussing the enforceability of amendments that impose new restrictive covenants (by Cindy Carson Hodge).  This edition's featured...

Read More...

2015 Board Boot Camp

Thank you for joining us at the 2015 Board Boot Camp!  It was a tremendous success.  We will be holding more Board Boot Camp seminars in the upcoming months. The 2015 Board Boot Camp was a complimentary community association seminar held on Saturday, August 8, 2015. It featured sessions on: Case Law Update Contracts Amendments Leasing Collections See you at the next Boot...

Read More...

The Walking Debt: Collections Against a Deceased Owner

We've all heard the expression that "you can't squeeze blood from a stone." The same adage may apply when the sole owner of a property who is obligated to pay assessments dies. An association that is owed money cannot initiate or maintain a lawsuit against a dead person and the debts of the deceased are not transferred to his relatives. What can an association do when an owner's obligation to pay assessments terminates at death but title lives on in the name of the deceased? In Georgia, when...

Read More...

Five Lueder, Larkin & Hunter Lawyers Named to “Super Lawyers”

The 2015 edition of Thomson Reuters' Georgia Super Lawyers magazine recognized Stephen A. Finamore, Erica L. Parsons, Jason W. Hammer, Jefferson M. Starr, and Cynthia Carson Hodge as among the best in their respective practice areas in the state. Exceptional lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement For inclusion onto these lists, lawyers are nominated by their peers and chosen based on an extensive balloting, research and a blue-ribbon review...

Read More...