re: Raleigh Man Faces Financial Ruin After Multimillion-Dollar Home Stolen Using False Deed

Here is the thing. Your life’s work can be taken from you wrongly in a day. It often is

Some counties have notification systems whereby, if a deed is filed on your property, you are notified. But you have to register for the service.

Denton County (TX) has such a system: when I filed a Transfer on Death Deed for my house (just before going into major surgery last year), I was notified that a deed was filed.

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People need to start using Jury Nullification as a bludgeon against the legal system

Especially the Right

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No.

You don't want Jury Nullification to become a popular thing.

We operate under the rule of law, and we need to promote that ideal.

You do NOT want to promote the opposite.

We are trying every day to crawl away from solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

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That's not the job of a county clerk, though.

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Riiiight.

The job of the County Clerk is to enable the fraudulent transfer of someone's home.

For the vast majority of American homeowners, their home is far and away their largest financial asset, and it is a leveraged investment. Meaning, not only is the asset stolen, the victim is still on the hook for loan payments. Saying "Golly-gee, surry but there ain't nuttin' we kin do," does not cut it. This is correctable, state enabled crime.

E.g., Either have lawyers and title insurance involved, or the title holder with approved identification present for the title transfer.

What is this person going to do? Remove the guy from his own house by force?

If the new owner attempts that and he shoots her dead in the floor what then? She was attempting to defraud and steal his property.

This is a paperwork nightmare I would imagine but this is something someone would die over before I just give my house to someone.

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we go into overdrive to investigate why and if its legitimate.

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Guessing you’re an attorney with experience in this.

I do know from discussions with title attorneys they say the same on any recent changes.

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Adams promptly presented evidence of his ownership, including mortgage and tax documents, but county officials informed him that they were powerless to intervene. Adams said his only option was to hire a private attorney to file a civil suit against Mangum.

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That's not his only option. People like this who use fraud for a living are, with the exception of the very old, the first to jump at what seems like a sweet deal, but which is really payback.

Back in the day, a sibling had a small business as a high school student - taking and selling team, and individual photos. He took a SLR camera to a local shop for repairs. When he didn't hear back on the fix, he went to the shop, and they had taken all of their in-service inventory and hauled arse.

My parents simply watched the classifieds until they found a large chunk of merchandise being offered, then went to visit the guy in his home, while my sibling hung back in the car. Yep, same guy.

My parents choice was to get the law involved, or not. My father consulted a hunting buddy, also the county DA, who told him "whatever you do, do it in our county, not his county". He called the man, told him he'd buy all of his inventory, and told him to meet at our place of business, which he did. When the guy got back home, he learned that 1) the check had a stop-payment, 2) that kid he fricked had fricked him back, and that his recourse was to file charges with the local Sherriff, who could be found most weekends hunting my fathers' property. He chose to walk away from that fight.

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Title insurance??

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That's the whole purpose of it and sounds like the right avenue hasn't been identified by the correct owner to get this resolved yet.

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Title insurance??

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Won't cover it. Title insurance does not cover matters that happen after you acquire title.