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		<title>6 Suggestions For Homeowners Associations To Mitigate Their Exposure to Potential Liability</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Tarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By implementing regular maintenance schedules, prioritizing safety improvements, and ensuring proper insurance coverage, HOAs can mitigate risks. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pool Season: Is Your Association Ready to Take the Plunge?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Tarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 21:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Many Community Associations prepare to open their neighborhood pool by adding chemicals and performing maintenance to ensure the health and safety of the Owners. But just as HOAs take care in measuring chlorine and skimming leaves, Boards of Directors are well-advised to take care in preparing the Association&#8217;s Pool Rules. This blog post reviews the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Virginia Statute &#8211; HOAs must adopt &#8220;Cost Schedule&#8221; to recover copy costs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Tarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 21:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Virginia Code has provisions that provide members of condominium associations and homeowner associations with the ability to request copies of books and records. The statutes have also permitted  associations to recover the costs of copying the requested books and records. This blog post highlights a new statutory provision affecting common interest communities. On July [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>HOAs and the Power to Adopt Rules and Regulations: Is it more limited than we think?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Tarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 21:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Community Associations that have adopted rules and regulations that permit the association to avail itself of the enforcement capabilities found in Va. Code Ann. § 55-79.80:2 or § 55-513(B) should have counsel review the governing documents or condominium instruments, as applicable, in light of an unpublished Virginia Supreme Court order in Shadowood Condominium Association et al., v. Fairfax County Redevelopment and Housing Authority. In Shadowood, the Court determined that community associations do not have the authority to impose charges or suspend owner’s rights unless the authority is specifically granted in the condominium instruments or governing documents. This blog post analyzes that Court order.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ADA, FHA, and HOAs And Service Animals: Florida Association Sued for housing discrimination</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Tarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 21:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A short while ago we wrote a blog piece on the issues relating to community associations regulating service animals. In that blog we noted that the Fair Housing Act (&#8220;FHA&#8221;)  &#8220;permits individuals with disabilities to keep an assistance animal as a reasonable accommodation when there are limitations imposed by the homeowner or condominium association on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Virginia&#8217;s Noncompete Statute</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Tarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 21:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Virginia became one of the latest states to pass legislation limiting the use of employee noncompete agreements. Beginning July 1, 2020, certain noncompete agreements are prohibited by statute. This blog post examines that new statute and what it means for employers and employees.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Small Business Break-Ups &#8211; The High Cost of Litigating a Forced Separation</title>
		<link>https://blog.tarleyrobinson.com/?p=1790</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Tarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 21:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A recent Virginia Supreme Court Case, Cattano v. Bragg, illustrates again 2 points we have made time and time again: 1) Make sure your small business is prepared for an eventual "divorce" between the shareholders; and 2) Litigation is very, very expensive.

In this blog post we will review the Supreme Court's decision and provide some tips for your small business so that you can avoid the calamity that occurred in this case, which included an attorneys' fee award of over $260,000 for the prevailing party.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Holiday Lights and your HOA</title>
		<link>https://blog.tarleyrobinson.com/?p=3009</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Tarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 21:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Virginia Supreme Court has issued another ruling specifying the limitations of homeowners associations to enact guidelines, rules, and regulations that exceed the scope of their authority. We had written previously about attempts by HOAs to regulate holiday decorations. The first item on our suggested checklist to assist homeowners association was &#8220;Does the Board have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>HOAs and Transition from Developer Control &#8211; 101</title>
		<link>https://blog.tarleyrobinson.com/?p=2577</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan Tarley]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 21:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Owners in most community associations—both homeowner associations and condominium associations—eventually reach the point where the developer transfers control of the Board of Directors to the owners. This blog post provides an introduction to the transition process and what owners can expect.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Does your Business use Employee Noncompete Agreements?</title>
		<link>https://blog.tarleyrobinson.com/?p=92</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Neal Robinson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 21:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Neal J. Robinson]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The legal issues related to employee “non-competes” (also known as covenants not to compete or non-competition agreements) are often not well understood by employees subject to them, the companies insisting upon them, or the companies intending to hire persons subject to them.  That may well be especially true in the Commonwealth of Virginia where one [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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