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Real Estate Attorneys in San Bernardino, California

Counsel for property: purchases, disputes, title, and land use. In San Bernardino, that work runs through San Bernardino County's courts. This directory presents real estate records from official State Bar of California data in neutral order.

San Bernardino is a city of roughly 222,000, and its real estate matters are heard at the San Bernardino County Superior Court: San Bernardino Justice Center. The San Bernardino Justice Center, opened in 2014, centralized the civil courts of the largest county in the contiguous United States by area, a county whose warehouse and logistics boom keeps employment and injury filings climbing.

Deadlines shape these cases before merits do · three years for trespass or injury to real property; four years on written contracts (§ 337) (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 338(b)). Adverse possession and prescriptive easement claims require five years of qualifying use (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. §§ 321–325). Seller non-disclosure claims sound in fraud: three years from discovery (§ 338(d)).

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The clock & the craft

Statute of limitations

Three years for trespass or injury to real property; four years on written contracts (§ 337).

Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 338(b)

Adverse possession and prescriptive easement claims require five years of qualifying use (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. §§ 321–325). Seller non-disclosure claims sound in fraud: three years from discovery (§ 338(d)).

Reading the roster in San Bernardino

Real estate disputes are document cases: bring the purchase agreement, escrow file, title report, and any disclosure statements to a first meeting. Look for attorneys who practice real property litigation in the county where the land sits; venue is fixed there by Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 392, and ask whether the matter is better resolved by negotiation, a quiet title or partition filing, or the arbitration/mediation clause most CAR purchase agreements contain.

Real Estate · San Bernardino County roster

William S. Fitch

Business Law · Chino Hills

Bar #200908 · Admitted 1999

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Paul Eric Flores

Insurance · Upland

Bar #102682 · Admitted 1982

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Edna T. C. Fok

Business Law · San Bernardino

Bar #320599 · Admitted 2018

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Bruce G. Fordon

Business Law · Highland

Bar #238801 · Admitted 2005

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Keith F. Gallarzo

Business Law · Ontario

Bar #316320 · Admitted 2017

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Gilbert A. Garcia

Business Law · Chino Hills

Bar #162244 · Admitted 1992

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Raul B. Garcia

Business Law · Redlands

Bar #131912 · Admitted 1987

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Tiffany E. Garrick

Business Law · Rch Cucamonga

Bar #296892 · Admitted 2014

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Real Estate matters in San Bernardino

The matters this field covers, as Californians search for them. Each attorney's own profile states which of these they take.

  • purchase and sale disputes
  • seller nondisclosure claims
  • boundary and easement disputes
  • quiet title
  • partition actions
  • HOA disputes
  • commercial leases
  • escrow and title problems
  • eminent domain
  • foreclosure defense

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Real Estate questions, cited

What must a home seller disclose in California?

Sellers of residential property (1–4 units) must deliver a Transfer Disclosure Statement describing known material facts and defects (Cal. Civ. Code § 1102 et seq.), plus a Natural Hazard Disclosure Statement (Civ. Code § 1103) covering flood, fire, and seismic zones. Deliberately concealing known material defects supports fraud claims running three years from discovery (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 338(d)).

How does adverse possession work in California?

A claimant must show five years of actual, open, hostile, and continuous possession under claim of right or color of title, and payment of all property taxes on the parcel during those five years (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. §§ 321–325). The tax-payment requirement defeats most casual encroachment claims; boundary disputes more often proceed as prescriptive easement or agreed-boundary theories.

Can I force the sale of a jointly owned property in California?

Generally yes, through a partition action: a co-owner is ordinarily entitled to partition as of right (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 872.710). For inherited homes, the Partition of Real Property Act (Code Civ. Proc. § 874.311 et seq.) adds appraisal and buyout rights that let family co-owners purchase the interest of the co-owner seeking sale before a forced sale occurs.

What is a quiet title action?

A lawsuit under Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 760.010 et seq. asking the superior court to determine all adverse claims to a property and settle title in the rightful owner. It is the standard vehicle for clearing clouded title (stale deeds of trust, forged conveyances, easement disputes, or competing inheritance claims), and judgment binds all parties named and served.

Is a handshake deal for land enforceable in California?

Usually not. The statute of frauds requires contracts for the sale of real property, or leases longer than one year, to be in writing and signed (Cal. Civ. Code § 1624(a)(3)). Narrow exceptions exist for part performance and estoppel, but they are litigated uphill, real property deals belong on paper.

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