Without title insurance, you are not guaranteed ownership if the following situations occur:
  • Someone else owns a recorded interest in your title.
  • A document is not properly signed, sealed, acknowledged or delivered.
  • Forgery, fraud, duress, incompetence, incapacity or impersonation.
  • Defective recording of any document.
  • Lack of a right of access to and from the land.
  • Mechanic's lien protection for work or materials done prior to policy date except where the insured has agreed to same.
  • Unrecorded liens by a homeowner's association.
  • Others have rights arising out of leases, contracts or options.
  • Someone else has an easement on your land.
  • Forced removal of the residential structure because it extends onto other land, on to any easements, violates a restriction shown in Schedule B of the preliminary title search, or violates an existing zoning law.
  • Building permit or zoning violation.
  • Restrictive covenant violations prior to owners.
  • Mineral extraction damage.
  • Map inconsistency protection.
  • Post policy encroachment; post policy forgery.
  • Living trust coverage.
  • Forced removal of existing structures including boundary walls and fences due to encroachment onto adjoining land.
  • Supplemental real estate taxes by a taxing authority not previously assessed prior to date of policy because of construction or a change in ownership before the policy date.


 

 

 

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