FAQs 

• Forged deeds, mortgages, satisfactions or releases of mortgages, and other instruments. 
• Impersonation of the true owners of the land by fraudulent persons. 
• Outstanding prescriptive rights not of record and not disclosed. 
• Undisclosed or missing heirs. 
• Defective acknowledgment due to lack of authority of notary. (Acknowledgment taken before commission or after expiration of commission.) 
• Descriptions apparently but not actually adequate. 
• Deed from bigamous couple - prior existing marriage in another jurisdiction. 
• Mistake in recording legal documents. (For example, incorrect indexing or errors and omissions in transcribing, and failure to preserve original instruments.) 
• Special assessments where they became liens upon passage of resolution and before recordation or commencement of improvements for which assessed. 
• Recorded easement, but erroneous ancient location of pipe or sewer line which does not follow route of granted easement. 
• Undisclosed divorce of spouse who conveys as sole heir of deceased
• Deed from record owner of land where he has sold property to another purchaser on unrecorded land contract and the purchaser has taken possession of premises. 
• Tax titles invalid because of irregularity of proceeding, reversal of court decisions, or lack of decisions on points of law. 
• Fraud, duress or coercion in securing essential signatures. 
• Deeds by persons of unsound mind. 
• Invalid, suppressed, undisclosed, and erroneous interpretation of wills.