Articles for Butler | Hailey

These materials were prepared by Roy Hailey and Sharon Reuler (a fellow attorney and colleague from Dallas, Texas) for the June 30, 2011 State Bar of Texas Webcast to showcase the new POA specific laws passed by the Texas Legislature in its 2011 Session (82nd). Of particular interest are the attachments for Chapters 202, 207 and 209 of the Texas Property Code, which red-line the changes to these Chapters made by the 82nd Texas Legislature. Also of interest is the “POA Checklist”, which highlig

The Texas POA Primer is a guidebook covering the basic elements of a Texas law practice that works with common interest developments and property owners associations - in the residential context - both condominiums and planned communities. Among its many exhibits is an update to the outline "Survey of Texas Case Law affecting Property Owners Associations" which update includes reported Texas cases affecting property owners associations from the years 2006 - 2009.

This article is on the significant holding in each case discussed concerning the law governing property owners associations and restrictive covenants. The article should be used as a directory of those cases reported over the last twenty-one years that discuss or comment on the law affecting property owners association and restrictive covenants. (updated for 2006)

This paper addresses the procedures, which must be followed to effect a valid foreclosure sale of a lien held by a property owners association

The purpose of this paper is to provide the real estate practitioner that is not familiar with representing residential property owners associations (POAs) an overview of what POAs are and the evolution of their statutory powers.

This article provides an overview of the staturtory evolution of condominiums and property owners associations by the Texas Legislature until 2002.