Let me give you a quick legal tip for persons seeking to invest in land/real estate.
Ensure you engage an experienced and registered surveyor as well as a knowledgeable Property and Real Estate Lawyer. An experienced Property and Real Estate Lawyer, Attorney & Barrister is in a better position to engage the right surveyor for you.
Confirm that the name or names of the purchaser on the survey plan tallies with what you desire it to be. Ensure that no name is omitted as that may have grave legal consequences on your ownership rights.
There was a live case where a survey plan of a piece of land bore only the name of a husband.
The wife insisted that the deed of conveyance should include her own name. Eventually, the deed of conveyance bore the names of both husband and wife.
The above live issue is a property disaster waiting to happen.
Imagine that the marriage eventually hits the rocks and the couple begin to argue over who truly owns the land?
This kind of situation is avoidable and should as a matter of necessity be completely avoided.
The proper thing to have been done is for the Lawyer to insist that the survey plan be amended to have the names of the couple, as it is legally incorrect to have a name in the deed missing in the survey plan and vice versa.
Don’t fall into that error.
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