Legal Law

Is the secrecy of a land trust legal?

Land Trusts (LT) have been used in the United States for over 100 years, primarily for property privacy. Many people, for various reasons, want to own real estate without public knowledge. Maybe he’s a celebrity, a politician (President Obama owns his suburban Chicago home on an LT), or an individual who just doesn’t want the […]

Legal Law

Locomotives and the Supreme Court

Things lose their usefulness over time. No matter how innovative and useful they were when they were first invented, most end up in a scrap heap or, at best, in a museum. Take Kitty Hawk, the first powered airplane in human history, for example. A great advance in the history of technology, it is useless […]