As most business owners in Murfreesboro know, running a company or establishment usually means partnering with other entities. The parties typically establish these relationships by signing a legal contract or agreement. Examples of potential contract parties include:...
Change orders – those sometimes inevitable and unavoidable changes in the plans after construction on a project already begins – are the frequent source of litigation. Disputes often start because the owner, the contractor, the developer, investors or even the...
Moving day has come and gone, and the prior owner of your new home is still sitting there with barely a box of their belongings packed. What now? You can’t very well toss the other party and everything they own out into the street since that would be an illegal...
Force majeure clauses are essential in construction contracts. Although construction professionals have back-up plans in case unexpected circumstances arise, you can’t plan for everything. Tennessee has certainly seen more than its fair share of weather-related...
As a property owner, a compulsory purchase order under eminent domain laws could destroy your dreams for the future and your memories of the past. Whether your property is your home, farm, or business, losing it will be devastating. Rather than assuming that a...
Constructing anything that prohibits the ingress of water is nothing short of an engineering miracle. At least, that is how it seems to those of us unfamiliar with the construction industry. The nature of water allows it to travel unimpeded until something stops it or...
Ford Motor Company wants to invest $5.6 billion into a West Tennessee factory that will build electric vehicles and the batteries that run them. Now Tennessee lawmakers have approved a $884 million package deal that should clear the way. But controversy abounds, and...
If you’re facing the loss of your property through eminent domain, you may feel that it is very unfair. Hasn’t the United States always been a country that valued personal property? Isn’t that one of the founding principles? Does that mean that eminent domain is just...
When you think of construction defects, you typically think of fundamental mistakes that mean the building doesn’t work in some fashion. Maybe the contractor forgot to run the lines to the kitchen lights and none of them work, for instance. Maybe there are cracks in a...
Building a brand new home seems like the most reasonable way to ensure that the space where you live is clean and safe. After all, when you buy an older home, there's no way of knowing how the previous owners cleaned or maintained the property. There could be dirty...
