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Delaware HOA Governing Statute

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Delaware HOA Governing Statute

1. Overview — How HOAs are governed in Delaware

Delaware runs its homeowner associations under a uniform statute. The Delaware Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act — DUCIOA — governs both condominiums and planned communities created after September 30, 2009, and it draws on the 2008 revision of the Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act.1 DUCIOA is codified at 25 Del. C. § 81-101 et seq. It applies to common interest communities that Delaware created after that date, with a handful of express exceptions.2

Communities that came before that date follow a different path. Condominiums and other common interest communities created before September 30, 2009 still answer primarily to the Delaware Unit Property Act, 25 Del. C. § 2201 et seq. Even so, a specific set of DUCIOA sections reaches back to those older communities for events and circumstances that occur after the effective date.3

Delaware splits its trial courts, and that split shapes how associations litigate disputes. Equitable claims — declaration interpretation, breach of fiduciary duty against directors, specific performance of covenants, and injunctive or derivative relief — go to the Court of Chancery. Legal claims for money damages, including assessment collection and judgment liens, go to the Superior Court, with smaller civil matters in the Court of Common Pleas. Appeals from both trial courts head straight to the Delaware Supreme Court, because Delaware has no intermediate appellate court.4

Delaware adopted the 2008 UCIOA framework comparatively late. That puts it behind the 1982 UCIOA states — Alaska, Colorado, Minnesota, Nevada, and West Virginia — and places it alongside Connecticut, Vermont, and Washington as one of four states on the 2008 version.5 For practitioners, the result is a modern statutory baseline laid over a small but legally distinctive jurisdiction.

2. The statutory framework

2A. The Delaware Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act

DUCIOA sits at 25 Del. C. § 81-101 et seq., and it divides into four subchapters: general provisions, creation and termination, management of the common interest community, and protection of purchasers.6 The Act governs every common interest community Delaware created after the September 30, 2009 effective date, unless a specific exception applies — and the exceptions include small condominiums and cooperatives of no more than 20 units, along with certain nonresidential communities.7 The statute reached its current effective date through a delayed-implementation amendment that moved the original October 31, 2008 date to September 30, 2009 and authorized conforming actions parties had taken in reliance on the original date.8

DUCIOA folds condominiums, cooperatives, and planned communities into a single statutory framework — a structural choice it inherited from the 2008 UCIOA. The bill synopsis filed with the Delaware General Assembly puts it plainly: DUCIOA "is closely patterned after the UNIFORM COMMON INTEREST OWNERSHIP ACT (UCIOA) developed by the National Conference Of Commissioners On Uniform State Laws," with revisions that track the 2008 version.9

The Act's structural provisions follow a community through its full life cycle. Section 81-205 sets out what a declaration must contain: the names of the community and the association, the maximum number of units the declarant reserves the right to create, allocated interests, and limited common element designations.10 Section 81-306 governs bylaws content. Section 81-303 covers the executive board's duties and the declarant control period. Section 81-302 lists the association's powers, and §§ 81-315 and 81-316 hold the assessment authority and lien priority.11

Section 81-324 governs owner budget ratification. The executive board must prepare a proposed budget at least once a year, and — once the declarant control period ends — must deliver a summary to all unit owners within 30 days of adoption. At the same time, the board must schedule a meeting to consider ratification no fewer than 14 and no more than 60 days after it delivers the summary. The budget ratifies itself "[u]nless at that meeting a majority of all unit owners or any larger vote specified in the declaration, voting in person or by proxy, reject the budget," and that happens whether or not a quorum shows up.12 If owners reject a budget, the last ratified periodic budget stays in force until a new one is ratified. Special assessments follow the same process — unless the board unanimously finds an emergency, in which case the special assessment takes effect immediately and the board must give notice promptly.13

DUCIOA draws a line between mandatory provisions, which agreement cannot vary, and default rules the declaration may modify. Section 81-104 states the variation rule: "Except as expressly provided in this chapter, the effect of its provisions may not be varied by agreement, and rights conferred by it may not be waived."14 The mandatory items include the prohibition on declarant evasion devices; the fiduciary standards under § 81-303 for board members appointed by both declarants and unit owners; the budget ratification mechanism of § 81-324; the open-meeting rule for executive board meetings after declarant control under § 81-308A; and the unconscionability and good-faith provisions of §§ 81-112 and 81-113. Many other items — allocated interests, voting mechanics under § 81-310, and a good number of association powers under § 81-302 — the declaration may vary within the limits the statute sets.

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2B. Pre-2009 condominiums and the Unit Property Act

The Delaware Unit Property Act, 25 Del. C. § 2201 et seq., still governs condominiums and certain other unit-property communities created before September 30, 2009.15 Its short-title section says so directly, acknowledging that the Unit Property Act "shall be subject to the provisions of Part VII, Chapter 81 of this title, which supersedes various provisions hereof, as provided in § 81-119 of that chapter."16

DUCIOA spells out its transition rules in 25 Del. C. § 81-119. That section names a specific catalog of DUCIOA sections that apply to preexisting communities for events and circumstances occurring after the effective date, including §§ 81-105, 81-106, 81-107, 81-127, 81-203, 81-204, 81-217(i), 81-221, 81-301, much of 81-302, 81-303, 81-306, 81-307(a), 81-308A, 81-309(a), 81-310, 81-311, 81-314, 81-315, 81-316, 81-318, 81-321, 81-323, 81-324, 81-409, and 81-417.17 Where neither the preexisting governing documents nor the Unit Property Act addresses an issue, DUCIOA controls.18

In practice, a pre-2009 Delaware condominium stays primarily Unit Property Act-governed for declarant obligations and underlying form, but answers to DUCIOA's modern governance rules for open board meetings, budget ratification, assessment liens, records inspection, resale certificates, and the dispute remedies of § 81-417. Boards and counsel have to consult both chapters and the community's recorded documents.

2C. The continuing role of CC&Rs and corporate law under DUCIOA

DUCIOA leaves substantial room for the declaration to vary most operational matters. Where the statute does not mandate a result, the declaration controls; where neither the declaration nor the Unit Property Act addresses an issue in a preexisting community, DUCIOA fills the gap.19 In newly created communities, conflicts between the declaration and DUCIOA resolve in favor of the statute — except where the statute itself lets the declaration vary the rule.

For Delaware associations, the order of precedence runs from federal law (the Fair Housing Act, the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, the Corporate Transparency Act), to mandatory DUCIOA provisions, to county code obligations including the New Castle County Unified Development Code, to the recorded declaration and any amendments, to bylaws and rules, and finally to common law contract and property doctrine.

Delaware corporate law runs alongside DUCIOA whenever the association is organized as a legal entity. Most Delaware associations organize as nonstock nonprofit corporations under the General Corporation Law at 8 Del. C. § 101 et seq.; LLC associations fall under the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act at 6 Del. C. § 18-101 et seq.20 DUCIOA's fiduciary duty provision at § 81-303(a) cross-references Delaware corporate law directly: officers and executive board members, whether or not the declarant appointed them, must "exercise the degree of care and loyalty to the association required of an officer or director of a corporation organized under Delaware law," and that standard applies no matter which form of legal entity the association takes.21

Common law contract and property doctrine fills the rest of the interpretive space. Delaware courts apply ordinary contract principles to declaration and bylaw interpretation, and the Court of Chancery treats the declaration as a binding contract among the unit owners and the association. Because the declaration is the central governing document and DUCIOA allows variation on most points, drafting precision and amendment procedure carry real operational weight.

3. Compliance obligations created by the statutory framework

Governance obligations

DUCIOA requires every common interest community to have a unit owners' association, organized no later than the date the first unit is conveyed, with an executive board the declaration creates under 25 Del. C. § 81-301 and § 81-303.22 Section 81-308 requires annual meetings of unit owners. Section 81-308A requires executive board meetings at least quarterly and opens them to members after the declarant control period ends. Section 81-310 sets the voting and proxy procedures, and § 81-318 establishes records-access rights. All of these governance sections reach pre-2009 communities through § 81-119, though a community's preexisting declaration controls where it conflicts with DUCIOA. Breach of fiduciary duty claims against directors are equitable, so they go to the Court of Chancery — and the § 81-303(a) standards are mandatory, so the declaration cannot water them down.

Financial obligations

Section 81-324 requires annual budget preparation, summary delivery, and owner ratification. In condominiums and cooperatives, the proposed budget must carry a line item for required repair and replacement reserve funding that matches a current reserve study.23 Sections 81-315 and 81-316 hold the assessment authority and the priority of the assessment lien, and the lien for common-expense assessments is statutory and arises automatically. The budget ratification mechanism is mandatory in structure, though the declaration may set a larger rejection threshold than the statute's majority of all unit owners. Sections 81-315, 81-316, 81-323, and 81-324 all apply retroactively to pre-2009 communities through § 81-119.

Disclosure obligations

Sellers in DUCIOA-governed communities must provide a public offering statement under §§ 81-401 through 81-408 for first-conveyance sales, and a resale certificate under § 81-409 for later sales. The resale certificate stays valid for 120 days, must disclose any fees the buyer will owe the association at settlement, and triggers a 5-day purchaser cancellation right if it arrives after the parties execute the contract.24 Section 81-306(a)(6) requires the bylaws of a condominium or cooperative with more than 50 unit owners to provide for an independent audit of the association's financial records at least once every 3 years, with an independent accountant's review in the intervening years. The § 81-409 resale certificate requirement reaches pre-2009 communities through § 81-119; the public offering statement requirements generally do not.

Dispute resolution obligations

Section 81-302(a)(18) lets an association require, by rule, nonbinding alternative dispute resolution before anyone files in court, and § 81-302(b)(2) limits how far a declaration can go in barring the association from starting litigation or arbitration.25 Before an association imposes fines, § 81-302(a)(11) makes notice and an opportunity to be heard mandatory — it authorizes reasonable fines only "after notice and an opportunity to be heard."

Section 81-417 governs remedies and lets a court award reasonable attorneys' fees in an appropriate case.26 The venue choice is both consequential and mandatory: equitable claims — declaration interpretation, breach of fiduciary duty, injunctive relief, and specific performance — go to the Court of Chancery; legal claims, including assessment collection and money damages, go to the Superior Court; and smaller civil matters may proceed in the Court of Common Pleas. That last route does not reach governance disputes: in Vaughan v. Summerlyn Association of Owners, Inc. (Oct. 17, 2025), the Court of Common Pleas held it lacks subject-matter jurisdiction over association governance claims — assessments, meetings, elections, quorum, and late-fee interpretation — because they are equitable and belong in Chancery under 10 Del. C. § 341.27

The Office of the Common Interest Community Ombudsperson, established in the Department of Justice at 29 Del. C. § 2541 et seq., provides mediation and education. In its 2023 Annual Report, DAG Christopher J. Curtin reported that the office received 77 formal complaints in 2023, resolved 240 total complaints including prior-year carryovers, handled 452 formal email inquiries, ran 40 workshops and meetings statewide, and made 12 referrals to the Court of Common Pleas' Community Mediation Program.28

4. Delaware's recent legislative and judicial activity

Recent bills

Delaware has stayed quiet here. No new HOA statute has passed recently, so the most recent substantive amendment still sets the rules boards work under today.

Status Signed
⌾ Last verified May 25, 2026
Docket

HB 112 · 83 Del. Laws c. 173 · 151st General Assembly

Effective
Oct 15, 2021
Sunset
N/A
Relating to common interest communities and resale certificates
Synopsis

A review of the General Assembly's bill database for the 152nd and 153rd General Assemblies through May 25, 2026 turns up no signed legislation amending DUCIOA (Chapter 81) or the Unit Property Act (Chapter 22) in the past 24 months.[29] The most recent substantive amendment is HB 112. Governor John Carney signed it on September 15, 2021, and it was chaptered as 83 Del. Laws c. 173, effective October 15, 2021. It added DUCIOA sections that apply to pre-existing communities, set one corporate-law standard of care for all executive board members, and made technical corrections elsewhere in the Act.[30]

Operational impact
What this means, by role
Property managers No statute added new steps in the past 24 months; reserve and resale-certificate procedures still run on the text as amended in 2021.
HOA board members Budget ratification, open board meetings, and reserve-study duties still run on the post-2021 statutory text; no newer statute adds owner notice or vote thresholds.
Community association attorneys Delaware sat out the 2024 and 2025 sessions, unlike Maryland and Virginia, so its statute does not track its neighbors.
Homeowners The rules haven't changed recently; the 120-day resale certificate and the budget-ratification rights in force since 2021 still apply.

Recent court rulings

Delaware's courts are holding associations to their own procedures — scrutinizing board fiduciary conduct, daily fine accruals, and how associations enforce their own rules.

Status Final Report modified on exceptions
⌾ Last verified May 25, 2026
Case

Kun Jiang v. Haslet Park Homeowners Association, Inc., and Mastriana Property Management, Inc.

Delaware Court of Chancery · C.A. No. 2023-0780-LM
Decided
Jul 24, 2026
Court
Del. Ch.
Synopsis

A Magistrate in Chancery issued a post-trial final report on February 6, 2026 on board fiduciary duty under § 81-303, rule enforcement under § 81-302, and fee-shifting under § 81-417.[31] On July 24, 2026, Vice Chancellor Bonnie W. David resolved exceptions de novo and modified the report in significant part. She held that the association entity owes no fiduciary duty at all — "Fiduciary duties are owed to, not by, the corporation" — so only officers and executive board members owe care and loyalty under § 81-303(a), and an unpaid volunteer board seat is not a disabling interest, so the loyalty claim failed. She also held that "The DUCIOA does not require an association to adopt a fine policy," because § 81-302(a)(11) requires only notice and an opportunity to be heard; that a board cannot adopt a fee-shifting resolution, which requires amending the Code of Regulations by two-thirds of unit owners; that 8 Del. C. § 112 does not require a universal proxy; and, at footnote 6, that §§ 81-302(a)(4), 81-302(a)(11), 81-303 and 81-417 "apply to the Association even though it is a 'preexisting community' formed under the UPA," citing § 81-119.[32] A letter opinion of August 17, 2026 upheld $33,810 in accrued fines as reasonable, continuing at $30 per day until cure, and declined § 81-417 fee-shifting even though the association largely prevailed.[33]

Operational impact
What this means, by role
Property managers No written fine policy is required; the Vice Chancellor upheld daily fines accruing after notice and a hearing as reasonable.
HOA board members Fiduciary exposure under § 81-303 is personal to officers and board members; the association entity owes none, and a board cannot adopt a fee-shifting resolution on its own.
Community association attorneys A fiduciary claim must name individual officers or board members, and § 81-417 fee-shifting was declined even though the association largely prevailed.
Homeowners Duties of care and loyalty run from officers and board members, not from the association itself; fines accruing after notice and a hearing were upheld.
Status Final
⌾ Last verified May 25, 2026
Case

Mousley v. Vincent Overlook Homeowners Association

Delaware Superior Court (Sussex County) · C.A. No. S23C-10-027 CAK
Decided
Feb 28, 2025
Court
Del. Super.
Synopsis

This collection case turned on DUCIOA's fee-shifting and enforcement remedy under § 81-417. The Superior Court agreed that the homeowner's commercial truck violated the declaration's parking restriction — but used its statutory discretion to decline enforcement of the accumulated $50-per-day fines. It ordered the fines and attorneys'-fee assessments stricken from the association's books so they would not stand as an inchoate DUCIOA lien against the property.[34]

Operational impact
What this means, by role
Property managers Daily fine accruals need periodic board review for reasonableness; § 81-417 gives courts broad discretion to decline enforcement.
HOA board members Recording fines as inchoate liens does not shield them from later judicial setoff; the § 81-316 lien framework is not absolute.
Community association attorneys Mind the split-court system — bring assessment collection in Superior Court and fiduciary claims in Chancery.
Homeowners A win on the violation doesn't guarantee the association collects every fine; courts can strike accruals they find unreasonable.
Status Final
⌾ Last verified May 25, 2026
Case

Sandy River Properties, LLC v. Cape Shores Homeowners Association

Delaware Court of Chancery · C.A. No. 2023-0895-BWD
Decided
Mar 15, 2024
Court
Del. Ch.
Synopsis

This Chancery matter addressed claims by unit owners against a planned community association. The relief is fact-specific, and the full opinion is available through the Delaware Courts opinion portal and the Justia docket.[35]

Operational impact
What this means, by role
Property managers Fact-specific disputes like this one turn on the documented record of owner complaints and board responses.
HOA board members Planned-community boards face the same Chancery scrutiny of declaration and bylaw compliance as condominium boards.
Community association attorneys The court's relief is tied tightly to the facts of the case.
Homeowners Unit owners in planned communities can bring claims against the association in Chancery.

Active legislative debates

The pending debates sit mostly with the Ombudsperson and a county task force — proposals on reserves, registration, and disclosure that have been studied but not yet enacted.

Status Under study
⌾ Last verified May 25, 2026
Agency

Common Interest Community Ombudsperson

2023 Annual Report · Advisory Council Legislation Committee
Issued
2024
Type
Recommendation
Synopsis

The Ombudsperson's 2023 Annual Report, by DAG Christopher J. Curtin, advances one formally active legislative recommendation — eliminating the § 81-117 small-community exemption — and lists ten more items still under study by the Advisory Council's Legislation Committee: declarant budget-summary obligations during declarant control, reserves for planned subdivision communities, community registration, notice of filing liens for delinquent assessments, audits for planned subdivision communities, earlier disclosure of governing documents to purchasers, transition and turnover requirements, collections policy, registration of community association managers, and more real-estate-agent education about common interest communities. None has been enacted as of May 25, 2026.[36]

Operational impact
What this means, by role
Property managers The manager-registration and reserve-study proposals, if enacted, would add credentialing and funding steps.
HOA board members Small communities now exempt under § 81-117 could lose that exemption if the recommendation were enacted.
Community association attorneys Several Legislation Committee items would change disclosure, reserves, and turnover duties if enacted.
Homeowners These proposals aim at more disclosure and stronger reserves — protections that would reach more communities if adopted.
Status Draft — not introduced
⌾ Last verified May 25, 2026
Agency

New Castle County Common Interest Community Task Force

Draft reserve, inspection, and declarant-funding amendments
Issued
N/A
Type
Draft
Synopsis

Separately, the New Castle County Common Interest Community Task Force has drafted proposed amendments on reserve studies, structural inspections, and declarant reserve funding. No one has formally introduced them yet, but they signal where county-level requirements may head.

Operational impact
What this means, by role
Property managers If adopted, the drafts would add reserve-study and structural-inspection documentation in New Castle County.
HOA board members County-level reserve and inspection rules could arrive before any statewide statute.
Community association attorneys The county track runs separately from Dover; local amendments could impose duties the state statute does not.
Homeowners These drafts aim at safer buildings and better-funded reserves in New Castle County communities.

Delaware belongs to the smaller group of UCIOA-adopting states, alongside Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, Nevada, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia. Within that group, Delaware shares the 2008 UCIOA basis with Connecticut, Vermont, and Washington, which sets it apart from the 1982-version states whose statutes predate the financial-crisis-era refinements to declarant control, reserve studies, and resale disclosures.37

Delaware's distinctive features include that later UCIOA vintage, the bifurcated Chancery and Superior Court trial structure with direct Supreme Court appeals, and a small but concentrated market. The Ombudsperson's 2023 Annual Report estimates "3000+ common interest communities" filed among the 1.5 million corporations on record with the Division of Corporations, clustered in New Castle County and the Sussex County coastal corridor.38

For multi-state property management firms and counsel, Delaware compliance does not follow by analogy from other UCIOA states, and the choice between Chancery and Superior Court is a threshold litigation decision, not a tactical one.

6. Closing note

HOA Weekly updates its Delaware Governing Statute coverage every quarter. Federal frameworks — the Fair Housing Act, the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act — also apply to Delaware HOAs alongside the state statutes covered here. The Corporate Transparency Act applies too, but not as an active filing burden: the current federal rule exempts a domestically incorporated Delaware association as a "domestic entity," so no beneficial-ownership report is due to FinCEN under the rule as it now stands.39

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Footnotes

  1. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 81-101 (2024) (effective date confirmed at § 81-116(b)). ↩
  2. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 81-116(a) (2024). ↩
  3. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 2201 (2024); Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 81-119 (2024). ↩
  4. Court Structure, Del. State Courts, https://courts.delaware.gov/ (last visited May 25, 2026). ↩
  5. Cmty. Ass'ns Inst., Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act, https://www.caionline.org/advocacy/advocacy-priorities-overview/uniform-common-interest-ownership-act/ (last visited May 25, 2026). ↩
  6. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, ch. 81 (2024). ↩
  7. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, §§ 81-116 to -118, 81-122 (2024). ↩
  8. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 81-116(b)–(d) (2024). ↩
  9. Synopsis, Delaware Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act, Del. Gen. Assemb. (sponsored by Sen. Steven H. Amick), https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/11840 (last visited May 25, 2026). ↩
  10. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 81-205 (2024). ↩
  11. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, §§ 81-302, -303, -306, -315, -316 (2024). ↩
  12. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 81-324(a) (2024). ↩
  13. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 81-324(b)–(c) (2024). ↩
  14. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 81-104 (2024). ↩
  15. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 2201 (2024). ↩
  16. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 2201 (2024). ↩
  17. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 81-119 (2024). ↩
  18. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 81-119 (2024). ↩
  19. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, §§ 81-104, -119 (2024). ↩
  20. Del. Code Ann. tit. 8, § 101 (2024); Del. Code Ann. tit. 6, § 18-101 (2024). ↩
  21. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 81-303(a) (2024). ↩
  22. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, §§ 81-301, -303, -308, -308A, -310, -318 (2024). ↩
  23. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 81-324(a) (2024). ↩
  24. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 81-409 (2024). ↩
  25. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 81-302(a)(18), (b)(2) (2024). ↩
  26. Del. Code Ann. tit. 25, § 81-417 (2024). ↩
  27. Vaughan v. Summerlyn Association of Owners, Inc., C.A. No. CPU6-25-000290 (Del. Ct. Com. Pl. Oct. 17, 2025) (Mims, J.) (motion to dismiss granted; association governance claims are equitable and belong in the Court of Chancery under 10 Del. C. § 341) ↩
  28. Del. Code Ann. tit. 29, § 2541 (2024); Del. Dep't of Justice, Office of the Common Interest Cmty. Ombudsperson, 2023 Annual Report (2024), https://attorneygeneral.delaware.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2024/12/DOJ_Ombudsperson_Report_2023_Final20241121.pdf. ↩
  29. Legislation, Del. Gen. Assemb. (152d & 153d Gen. Assemb.), https://legis.delaware.gov/AllLegislation (last visited May 25, 2026). ↩
  30. H.B. 112, 151st Gen. Assemb., Reg. Sess. (Del. 2021) (codified at 83 Del. Laws ch. 173 (2021)), https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail/48422. ↩
  31. Kun Jiang v. Haslet Park Homeowners Ass'n, No. 2023-0780-LM (Del. Ch. Feb. 6, 2026) (Magistrate's final report; modified in part on exceptions July 24, 2026), https://law.justia.com/cases/delaware/court-of-chancery/2024/c-a-no-2023-0780-lm.html. ↩
  32. Kun Jiang v. Haslet Park Homeowners Association, C.A. No. 2023-0780-LM (BWD), Memorandum Opinion Resolving Exceptions (Del. Ch. July 24, 2026) (David, V.C.) (final report modified in part on de novo review; association owes no fiduciary duty; DUCIOA does not require a fine policy; op. 16 n.6 on § 81-119) ↩
  33. Kun Jiang v. Haslet Park Homeowners Association, C.A. No. 2023-0780-LM (BWD), Letter Opinion on Fines and Attorneys' Fees (Del. Ch. Aug. 17, 2026) (David, V.C.) ($33,810 in accrued fines reasonable; $30 per day continuing until cure; § 81-417 fee-shifting declined) ↩
  34. Mousley v. Vincent Overlook Homeowners Ass'n, No. S23C-10-027 CAK (Del. Super. Ct. Feb. 28, 2025), https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=376040. ↩
  35. Sandy River Props., LLC v. Cape Shores Homeowners Ass'n, No. 2023-0895-BWD (Del. Ch. Mar. 15, 2024), https://law.justia.com/cases/delaware/court-of-chancery/2024/c-a-no-2023-0895-bwd.html. ↩
  36. Del. Dep't of Justice, Office of the Common Interest Cmty. Ombudsperson, 2023 Annual Report (2024), https://attorneygeneral.delaware.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2024/12/DOJ_Ombudsperson_Report_2023_Final20241121.pdf. ↩
  37. Cmty. Ass'ns Inst., Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act, https://www.caionline.org/advocacy/advocacy-priorities-overview/uniform-common-interest-ownership-act/ (last visited May 25, 2026). ↩
  38. Del. Dep't of Justice, Office of the Common Interest Cmty. Ombudsperson, 2023 Annual Report (2024), https://attorneygeneral.delaware.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2024/12/DOJ_Ombudsperson_Report_2023_Final20241121.pdf. ↩
  39. 31 C.F.R. § 1010.380, Reports of beneficial ownership information (current text on eCFR) (ecfr.gov) (domestic-entity exemption for entities created by filing with a U.S. secretary of state or similar office). ↩

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