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APPELLATE DIVISION UPHOLDS CONDO UNIT OWNER’S RIGHT TO REPAIR COMMON ELEMENTS

By | Published November 12, 2025 | Posted in Condominium Associations | Tagged Tags: , , , , , , | Comments Off on APPELLATE DIVISION UPHOLDS CONDO UNIT OWNER’S RIGHT TO REPAIR COMMON ELEMENTS

A recent Appellate Division offers important guidance for condominium associations and unit owners, clarifying when a unit owner may step in to make repairs to a common element after an association refuses to act.    In that unpublished case, Ronald Schecter v. Society Hill East Condominium Association, Inc., Docket No. A-2687-23 (October 2025), the plaintiff Read More

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Regardless Of Pro Se Status, Mere Speculation And Belief Is Insufficient To Defeat Summary Judgment, Appellate Division Reinforces

By | Published October 4, 2024 | Posted in Appellate Practice, Condominium Associations, Litigation | Tagged Tags: , , , , , , | Comments Off on Regardless Of Pro Se Status, Mere Speculation And Belief Is Insufficient To Defeat Summary Judgment, Appellate Division Reinforces

In Kovacs v. Wood Duck Pond Neighborhood Condo. Ass’n, Inc., the Appellate Division upheld the trial court’s finding that summary judgment was appropriate where the plaintiff failed to identify sufficient evidence to support his claims. 2024 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2177 (September 18, 2014).  By way of background, Plaintiff owns a condominium unit located on Read More

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Indemnification Provision Entitles Former Condominium Association Trustee to Recover Certain Fees and Costs for First-Party Claim

By | Published January 26, 2023 | Posted in Condominium Associations | Tagged Tags: , , | Comments Off on Indemnification Provision Entitles Former Condominium Association Trustee to Recover Certain Fees and Costs for First-Party Claim

Last week, New Jersey’s Appellate Division found that a former trustee of a condominium association’s board was entitled to recover certain fees and costs pursuant to the association’s indemnification provision. In that case, Boyle v. Huff, 2023 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 85, a trustee (Plaintiff) who had been kicked off a condo association’s board filed Read More

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Condo Liability In Snow Storms

By | Published November 21, 2022 | Posted in Condominium Associations | Tagged Tags: , , , , | Comments Off on Condo Liability In Snow Storms

by: Noah Botwinick The Superior Court of New Jersey’s Appellate Division recently overturned a grant of summary judgement to a defendant community association sued by a pedestrian who slipped on ice in a condominium parking lot within an hour of a snowstorm, citing an exception to the recently adopted ongoing storm rule. In Hanna v. Woodlan Cmty. Ass’n, No. A-0277-21 (App. Div. Nov. 17, 2022), a plaintiff condominium Read More

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Condo Association Is Awarded Monthly Fees and Penalties, but not Counsel Fees

By | Published October 5, 2022 | Posted in Community Associations, Condominium Associations | Tagged Tags: , , , , | Comments Off on Condo Association Is Awarded Monthly Fees and Penalties, but not Counsel Fees

The State Appeals Court has just issued an opinion awarding monthly condominium assessments and some penalties, but reversing a lower court’s sizable award of counsel fees. In Cross Roads Condominium Association v. Cosentino, Appellate Division Docket Number A-3599-20, decided on September 28, 2022, the Court ruled that the trial court did not adequately review the Read More

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Screening for Criminal Record may lead to Fair Housing Act violation

By | Published September 27, 2022 | Posted in Community Associations, Condominium Associations, Fair Housing Act | Tagged Tags: , , , , | Comments Off on Screening for Criminal Record may lead to Fair Housing Act violation

A recent memo by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) appears to lay the basis for a Fair Housing Act (the “Act”) complaint for discrimination in situations where a tenant or potential buyer is kicked out of or denied housing where the sole cause of the ejection/denial is the tenant/potential buyer’s criminal Read More

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Amended Law Allows Additional Time for Condo Associations to Sue Developers

By | Published May 16, 2022 | Posted in Community Associations, Condominium Associations | Tagged Tags: , , , , | Comments Off on Amended Law Allows Additional Time for Condo Associations to Sue Developers

Governor Phil Murphy signed into law an amendment to the New Jersey Statute of Limitations, which allows more time for condominium and cooperative associations to sue real estate developers in certain circumstances. New Jersey’s Statute of Limitations, N.J.S.A. 2A:14-1, has for years stated that any plaintiff has six years from the date of accrual to Read More

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Appellate Division Rejects Property Owner Challenge to Condemnation Designation as Out of Time Under Local Housing Redevelopment Law

By | Published May 16, 2022 | Posted in Community Associations, Condominium Associations | Tagged Tags: , , , | Comments Off on Appellate Division Rejects Property Owner Challenge to Condemnation Designation as Out of Time Under Local Housing Redevelopment Law

A Lindenwold woman was out of time to challenge her property’s condemnation designation when she did not challenge the condemnation until three years after the land use board passed a resolution recommending the designation, the Appellate Division held this April. In Borough of Lindenwold v. Mildred Jackson et al., Docket No. A-1308-20 (App. Div. April Read More

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Amended Law Allows Additional Time for Condo Associations to Sue Developers

By | Published May 16, 2022 | Posted in Community Associations, Condominium Associations | Tagged Tags: , , , , | Comments Off on Amended Law Allows Additional Time for Condo Associations to Sue Developers

Governor Phil Murphy signed into law an amendment to the New Jersey Statute of Limitations, which allows more time for condominium and cooperative associations to sue real estate developers in certain circumstances. New Jersey’s Statute of Limitations, N.J.S.A. 2A:14-1, has for years stated that any plaintiff has six years from the date of accrual to Read More

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Homeowner Associations Must Enforce Social Distancing Rules

By | Published April 22, 2020 | Posted in Community Associations, Condominium Associations, Homeowner Associations | Comments Off on Homeowner Associations Must Enforce Social Distancing Rules

We have seen some community association managers take the position that compliance with government ordered social distancing and stay at home orders are government problems, not community association issues. Lieberman Blecher & Sinkevich sees this in a different light. We believe that community associations cannot ignore these highly unusual public obligations. Community Associations Must Stop Read More

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