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If your business signs contracts with companies in other states, the dispute is rarely just “who breached.” The first real fight is usually: where can you sue, and can Florida force the out of state party to answer here. Florida law has a fairly disciplined framework for that analysis, and Florida courts...

If your HOA or condo association is stonewalling your records request, you are not being “difficult.” In Florida, access to association records is a statutory right. Associations can adopt reasonable rules for how inspection happens, but they cannot treat transparency like an optional courtesy.

This article explains what Florida law requires, what...

Own a condo in Florida? You’ve probably heard about special assessments. These one-time charges can range from a few hundred dollars to tens of thousands, depending on what your building needs. They’re different from your regular monthly fees. Special assessments pop up when the association needs money for major repairs or improvements...

When Florida business partners fall out, the fight usually turns into a document war. Everyone remembers the handshake conversations. The court cares about the operating agreement.

In Florida, an LLC operating agreement is treated like a contract, and courts generally enforce it as written when the language is clear. In Dinuro Investments,...

Insurance is where a lot of Florida community association disputes go to die. Not because the law is mysterious, but because owners assume “the association’s policy covers it” and then learn the hard way that coverage is split, limited, or conditioned on what the carrier actually pays.

In Florida condominiums, the statutory...

Florida is one of the most enforcement friendly states in the country for non-competes, but it is not a free for all. If you are trying to enforce a non-compete against another business (or defend against one), Florida law forces the fight into a few specific buckets: is there a signed written...

If you live in an HOA or condominium, your board has real power. They hire vendors, approve contracts, set budgets, and make decisions that hit every owner financially. That is exactly why conflicts of interest and self-dealing matter. Florida law treats association directors and officers as fiduciaries, and it gives homeowners specific...

When homeowners raise concerns about HOA financial mismanagement, the challenge is rarely just proving that something went wrong. More often, the real issue is identifying who can legally be held accountable, how to investigate association finances properly, and how to structure a case that can survive the procedural hurdles unique to Florida...

Two proposed Florida Senate bills, SB 906 and SB 908, are drawing significant attention in the HOA world because they signal a meaningful shift toward more state-level oversight of homeowners’ associations. SB 906 proposes creating an Office of the Homeowners’ Association Ombudsman within the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes,...

A new House bill has been introduced by representative JC Porras, known as HB 657, and it represents a substantial proposal aimed at changing the way association disputes are handled under Florida Statute Chapter 720. The bill also reaches into several governance issues affecting homeowners’ associations statewide, and most notably, it creates...