Insights on New York real property disputes — quiet title actions, deed fraud, boundary disputes, partition proceedings, and the litigation issues affecting property owners and investors.
When an owner or heir discovers a wrongful deed, the window to recover the property is measured in days, not weeks. What happens in the first filings determines whether recovery is possible.
Forged deeds are void ab initio in NY. Quiet title under RPAPL Article 15, with same-day lis pendens, is how the record is cleared.