Latest Legal Updates
Latest Legal Updates
HOA and condominium association legislation, court rulings and regulatory changes across every state, the District of Columbia and federal law — newest first.
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Hawaii's only answer to the Fannie Mae problem was deferred to death
SB 2294 would have written compliance with mortgage lending requirements into the statutory duties of associations, boards and managing agents; it cleared one committee 4–0 and Judiciary deferred it.
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Alabama's larger homestead exemption shrinks what an HOA judgment can actually reach
Act 2026-203, effective June 1, 2026, raised Alabama's homestead exemption in bankruptcy with a further increase for seniors and the disabled — which changes the arithmetic on collecting a money judgment for unpaid assessments.
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Reported: judge orders $2.2m Geist duplex demolished over a setback
A Hamilton County judge is reported to have ordered a completed lakefront duplex torn down after it was built into a side-yard setback without architectural approval, calling the harm self-inflicted.
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Owners' records suit against a Louisiana POA was revived — and the pleading is the lesson
The Fourth Circuit held the petition failed to allege the association refused to allow examination, then reversed the dismissal so the owners could amend, and sent back a Public Records Act claim against the association's security district that the trial court had never ruled on.
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Massachusetts filed two animal study commissions, pointing opposite ways. Both died
H.1534 would have studied access to emotional support animals in housing; S.1254 and H.4371 would have studied intentional misrepresentation of a service animal. Neither survived the 194th General Court.
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An HOA that lost by default could not get early review — and the reason is instructive
In 2025 COA 35 the Court of Appeals denied a homeowners association's petition for interlocutory review of an order refusing to vacate a default judgment, in a published order explaining exactly which requirements it failed.
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Illinois manager licences renew August 31, 2027, and IDFPR audits the certificates
The current community association manager cycle requires 12 hours of continuing education including mandatory sexual harassment prevention training, self-certified by affidavit — and the rules governing it have not been amended since June 2023.
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Every Georgia association must register with the Secretary of State from 1 January 2027
SB 406 requires a $100 annual registration statement, a copy of the governing documents, a financial statement under a year old, and ten years of retained records subject to state examination.
Read the full updateHawaii ICA: the wrongful-foreclosure clock runs from the recorded deed
Day v. AOAO Kaiolu Sunrise holds a six-year limitations period began when the association's quitclaim deed was recorded in 2010 — a solicitation letter ten years later did not restart it.
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$100,000 of improvements did not take an Iowa association's common ground
In Worrell v. Lake Crest Manor, thirty years of clearing, grading and mowing failed on adverse possession — while a fenced, posted corner succeeded. The difference was exclusion, not investment.
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Overland Park would end single-family-only zoning across 76 square miles
The city's development ordinance rewrite would replace more than thirty zoning districts with eleven character-based districts that permit single-family and duplex side by side. It is scheduled to conclude by December 2026 and is not adopted.
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Florida's condo EV charging right is not a right to rewire the building, the Second DCA holds
In Persechino v. Station Square the Second DCA affirmed an injunction requiring removal of an owner-installed Tesla charger, holding the five statutory conditions are not a ceiling on what a board may require.
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Kentucky would raise every elevator fee your condo pays — and add a charge for each re-inspection
Proposed amendments to 815 KAR 4:010 and 815 KAR 4:025 lift annual inspection fees across the board, restructure permit fees onto flat rates, and make each re-inspection cost a full fee again.
Read the full updateIllinois says the Eviction Article never barred police from removing a trespasser
Public Act 104-0029 adds a savings clause confirming that nothing in the Eviction Article stops law enforcement from enforcing criminal trespass — but it creates no summary removal procedure and does not define a squatter.
Read the full updateA Colorado roofer working on the roof was a landowner for injuries inside the store
In 2025 COA 59 the Court of Appeals held as a matter of first impression that the Premises Liability Act has no physical-proximity requirement for landowner status. Certiorari was denied on April 6, 2026, with two justices recording they would have granted.
Read the full updateLouisiana's 2026 disclosure act did not create an HOA disclosure duty — it extended one to vacant lots
Act 708 of 2026 has been reported as newly requiring sellers to disclose HOA membership and restrictive covenants. The disclosure has been in R.S. 9:3198 for years; what the Act adds, effective January 1, 2027, is the words “or vacant residential property.”
Read the full updateFannie Mae keeps a list of unfinanceable condominiums. A Braintree firm forced it into daylight
The list of projects ineligible for conventional financing has grown from a reported 1,400 to over 5,000. Insufficient master insurance and critical repairs are the leading reasons.
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Arizona forces cities to allow casitas. Your HOA can still say no
Arizona's ADU statutes strip municipalities of exterior-design control and now reach every county, but both expressly preserve private covenants — leaving the architectural committee holding the authority the city lost.
Read the full updateThe HOA industry asked Kemp to veto SB 406 and lost badly
The Community Associations Institute sent 16,560 emails, ran a Capitol Day and a paid media campaign, then asked for a veto. The bill passed the House 155-10 and the Senate without dissent, and Kemp signed it on deadline day.
Read the full updateEvery county must allow two ADUs by December 31 — and new covenants cannot stop them
Act 39 (2024) preempts private covenants recorded after May 28, 2024 from limiting ADUs or long-term rental on urban-district residential lots, and grandfathers everything recorded before that date.
Read the full updateIllinois could not pass a resolution to merely study condominium governance
HJR 60 and its companion HJR 67 would have created a task force on condominium transparency, financial integrity and safe living conditions, reporting by January 2027. Both were re-referred to Rules and died — the cheapest proposal of the session.
Read the full updateIndiana bill would have fenced every HOA retention pond
Senate Bill 69 of 2025 would have required a four-foot barrier around the full perimeter of any pond or lake owned or maintained by a homeowners association. It never got a hearing.
Read the full updateNo 2027 Alabama HOA bill can exist yet — and the Senate's own rules say why
Alabama Senate Rule 36 bars prefiling from the start of the last session of a quadrennium until the Organizational Session, leaving a three-week prefiling window from January 12 to February 2, 2027.
Read the full updateColorado's 2025 sunset review of its real estate regulator expressly excluded HOA managers
Anyone can manage a Colorado HOA. The state's October 2025 sunset review of the Division of Real Estate disclaims any review of community association managers, and the most recent sunrise review of CAM licensure dates to 2021.
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