Month: January 2020
Settlement of unapproved plot
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm I had purchased an unapproved plot (2,410 sq.ft.) in 1987. The transaction included patta, land tax, E.C and encumbrance certificate. As the High Court has...
Maintenance
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a law firm Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a law firm My brother owns a 15-year-old flat. For the past four years, water...
Common area ratio
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a law firm Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm I have booked a flat in a project’s phase-1 that has...
Allocation of land
our property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm I am the owner of a flat in a housing board promoted scheme comprising over 140 flats. The land was taken by the Government under...
Issues with a builder
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm I own a flat at Perambur and I have fully settled our payment dues (including maintenance charges in advance for 3 years) to the builder....
Transfer of property
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm My late father had executed a registered settlement deed of his apartment in Chennai in favour of my children (who are minors). My mother is...
Maintenance work on Sundays
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm We live in an apartment complex (in a gated community) comprising 500 apartments. Recently, a plumber whom I had called for some repairs on a...
Life interest clause
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a law firm I own a flat jointly with my daughter and I had transferred my share of property to her under a registered settlement deed. The deed contains...
Transfer of ownership
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm In 2006, I purchased a plot measuring 1,400 sq.ft. in Chennai. I registered it in the name of (A, B and C): my three sisters...
Maintenance charges
Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a law firm The maintenance rate of the flat I live in is charged by the committee on square-feet basis, and I am charged Rs. 2400 (Rs. 1200 *...