Lueder, Larkin & Hunter, LLC is proud to announce the opening of our Houston, Texas office and to welcome Tally Perez as a partner leading this expansion. With a distinguished career at the intersection of employment law and workers’ compensation defense, Tally brings a wealth of experience and insight to our firm. A Leader in Employment & Workers’ Compensation Defense Tally’s legal practice is founded on a balanced approach — ensuring that injured workers are treated...
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The Spring 2025 edition features an article discussing hate crimes and liability for Community Associations In 2016, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a new rule addressing harassment and discriminatory housing practices under the Fair Housing Act (FHA). The rule holds housing providers, including community associations, liable for failing to take corrective action when discrimination occurs between residents, especially in cases involving harassment or creating...
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Lueder, Larkin & Hunter, LLC collected $10,296,871.02 for our clients in 2024! At Lueder, Larkin & Hunter, LLC, we understand that delinquent assessments can seriously impact your community’s financial health — and that throwing good money after bad is not an option. That’s why we’ve built our collections practice around what we call Common Sense Collections: a results-driven approach that places the financial burden exactly where it belongs — on the delinquent...
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The Winter 2024 edition features an article discussing emotional support animal requests. Under the Fair Housing Act, community associations must consider requests for emotional support animals (ESAs) as a reasonable accommodation for residents with disabilities. Requests can only be denied if the animal poses a safety threat or property damage, supported by an individualized assessment of the situation. Residents must provide documentation from a qualified healthcare provider to substantiate...
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The Corporate Transparency Act is a federal law that became effective on January 1, 2021, to prevent money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and tax fraud by making it easier for the government to identify the individuals who operate certain companies and corporations. Although it would be unlikely that most nonprofit corporations would be engaged in such illegal activity, the Act is broadly written to include homeowners associations, condominium associations, townhome associations,...
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