Homeowners usually focus on design choices, budgets, and schedules when they remodel or build, but the paperwork that ...

You rent a small storage unit in Santa Monica—just a few boxes of old memories, maybe furniture, a surfboard, that treadmill you swore you’d use again. Months go by. One payment slipped. Then another.

Ernesto ran a towing yard in East LA. On a hot July morning, he muttered about how to file a lien sale in California while staring at a rusty Civic. Someone dumped the car in his lot four months ago ...

When you remodel a kitchen or replace a roof, you probably focus on design choices and contractor bids, not the legal paperwork that decides who can come after your house. Yet the most expensive ...