Member Highlight – Top 10 Lessons Learned in the Title Business
For all of our title industry professionals who have been very good this year, LTAMS has a special holiday gift – the collected advice shared…
LTAMS Membership Committee Wants Your Stories
The LTAMS Membership Committee is seeking your help for an upcoming member highlight article. What better way to start off the new year than with…
Webinar – Wire Fraud: Current Trends
Join us on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, from 11:00 a.m. to noon, for a live webinar on wire fraud. A hard hitting session by Matt…
Member Highlight – Agent: R. Neill Bryant
Neill Bryant followed a unique path into real estate law from a job as a petroleum landman working on an oil company’s bankruptcy case. A…
Extension: Waiver of In-Person CLE Requirement
In an order signed November 10, 2022, the Mississippi Supreme Court has extended the temporary waiver of the in-person requirement for an attorney’s continuing legal…
Deadline to adopt 2021 forms – Jan 1, 2024
Freddie Mac updated its Selling Guide to extend the date for the required use of the 2021 ALTA Policy Forms on Nov. 2nd. The new…
Member Highlight – Agent: Leslie R. Sadler
Although she was born and raised in Lake Village, Arkansas, Leslie Sadler has called Mississippi home for more than 20 years. She received a bachelor’s…
Legislation Not Enacted: Garbage Liens
No legislation (SB 2457 | HB 725 | HB 1069 – all died in Committee or on Calendar) was enacted to address the problem of…
Legislative Update: Evictions
In Conner v. Alltin, LLC 2021 WL 5588731 (Nov. 30, 2021), the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi held that certain…
Legislative Update: Cannabis
The new Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act, SB 2095, raises some interesting zoning issues. First, the Act describes where cannabis facilities can be located by reference…
Location of Public Notice Board & Foreclosure Sales in Rankin County
We have been advised that effective September 1, 2022, the Official Public Notice Posting Board shall be located in the main lobby of the Rankin…
Legislative Update: Letters of Administration
Prior to July 1, 2022, Section 91-7-63 provided that letters of administration shall be granted by the chancery court of the county in which the…
FNF Welcomes Ken Farmer to ALMA Team
We are excited to introduce Kenneth “Ken” Farmer as the newest team member in ALMA! Ken joins our team as Associate Regional Underwriting Counsel for…
Member Highlight – LTAMS Executive Assistant – Rene’ Garner
The Land Title Association of Mississippi is pleased to welcome Rene’ Garner in the newly established position of Executive Assistant to the Board of Directors.…
Legislative Update: Eminent Domain
In HB 1769 the Legislature enacted by statute the wording of the eminent domain initiative that was approved by the voters in an initiative in…
Legislative Update: Affidavit of Scrivener’s Error
HB 1351 amends Section 89-5-8 of the Mississippi to provide that an affidavit of scrivener’s error must recite the Mississippi bar number of the affiant…
Legislative Update: Carbon sequestration
HB 1214 makes changes to the Mississippi Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act, Miss. Code Ann. §§ 53-11-1 to -33 to promote carbon sequestration in…
Member Highlight – Associate: Donald Campbell
As a professor at the Mississippi College School of Law, Donald Campbell has a different perspective on the real estate title industry from the majority…
RON: Now Available in 43 States
Delaware, Rhode Island, and North Carolina are the latest states to pass bills that allow for remote online notarization (RON). Rhode Island’s legislation goes into…
Legislative Update: Homeowners’ Associations
In 2021 the Legislature enacted Miss. Code Ann. §§79-11-751 to -759, entitled Regulation of Homeowners Associations Management Agents and the Management of Association Assets. This…