This course reviews topics in bankruptcy (Chapters 7, 11,
and 13) essential to the title insurance underwriter, including the Petition,
jurisdiction, automatic stay, discharge of debts, notices of sale/transfer,
exemptions to the estate, Maryland homestead exemptions, tenancy issues,
abandonment, elimination of liens, discharge orders and judgments, bankruptcies
on prior owners, Deeds in lieu of foreclosure, and what to review when underwriting
a transaction involving a bankruptcy.
1 hour CE (Title)
Instructor: J. Paul Rieger Jr., Esq.
A former associate in the real estate practice group
of Venable, Baetjer and Howard, of Baltimore, Paul has over twenty-five years
of title searching, title examining and title insurance experience. He received his B.A. Degree, Cum Laude, from
Loyola College and his J.D., Magna Cum Laude, from The University of Baltimore
School of Law. He is a member of the
Baltimore County and Maryland State Bar Associations. Paul has lectured
extensively at MICPEL and National Business Institute seminars on topics of
title examination, title insurance underwriting, boundary law and advanced real
estate law, and he currently serves as a member of the Real Property Code
Revision Committee and the Section Council of the Maryland State Bar
Association Real Property Planning and Zoning Section.