Practice Area

Real Property
Litigation.

Michel Law represents owners, heirs, and estate fiduciaries in contested real property matters across New York. The firm handles deed fraud, quiet title actions, fraudulent conveyances, partition proceedings, and real property disputes arising out of estate administration — the kind of litigation where the record title must be set right and the stakes are measured in a family home or a decedent's single largest asset.

Our Approach

Contested Real Property
Demands Precision.

Real property litigation moves on two tracks at once — the paper record at the clerk's office and the people who stand to lose or gain from what that record says. Michel Law treats both as the case. The firm reconstructs chains of title before pleadings are filed, coordinates filings with Surrogate's Court when a decedent is involved, and sequences federal and state proceedings when fraudulent bankruptcy petitions are part of the scheme. Every matter is handled directly by Fabrice K. Michel from intake through judgment.

What We Handle

Core Areas of
Real Property Representation

The firm concentrates on the real property matters where the record itself is in dispute — where a forged signature, a fraudulent conveyance, or a contested chain of title has placed ownership at risk. Each sub-practice below reflects active matters in the firm's current docket.

Deed Fraud & Forged Deeds

Setting aside forged deeds under New York's void-ab-initio rule, filing same-day quiet title and lis pendens under CPLR § 6501, and unwinding downstream LLC transfers designed to shelter the fraud. Coordinated referrals to the District Attorney and the Attorney General's deed fraud intake where appropriate.

Quiet Title Actions (RPAPL Article 15)

RPAPL § 1515 complaints that plead the challenged instrument with CPLR § 3016(b) particularity, join every grantee and lender required by RPAPL § 1511, and obtain the RPAPL § 1521 judgment that clears the record. Lis pendens filed concurrently in every matter.

III

Fraudulent Conveyances

Debtor and Creditor Law §§ 273 and 276 causes of action against transferees and subsequent transferees who took without good faith for value. Used in combination with the void-deed rule to defeat chains of transfer that cannot shelter under bona fide purchaser doctrine.

Partition Actions

RPAPL Article 9 partition proceedings for co-owners and distributees of jointly held real property — including estate-related partition where a decedent's property is held by multiple heirs who cannot agree on sale, buyout, or continued joint ownership.

HECM & Reverse Mortgage Foreclosure Defense

Defense of Home Equity Conversion Mortgage foreclosures against servicers including Compu-Link (Celink), with coordinated sale and payoff strategy where retention is not viable. A specialty area where the HUD framework and the New York foreclosure rules intersect, and where few defense attorneys have deep experience.

Title Disputes & Boundary Disputes

Contested chains of title, missing heirs, prescriptive easements, boundary line disputes, and clouds on title from recorded instruments that no longer reflect actual ownership. Resolution through declaratory judgment, corrective instruments, or RPAPL Article 15 as the facts require.

VII

Real Property in Estate Administration

Real property matters that arise inside Surrogate's Court proceedings — recovering estate real property conveyed by fraud, partition among distributees, sales under SCPA Article 19, and quiet title actions brought by administrators and executors to clear title before sale or distribution.

Why This Firm

Why Michel Law
for Real Property Litigation

Active docket, not an occasional practice.

The firm carries multiple active real property litigation matters at any given time — contested quiet title, deed fraud, HECM foreclosure defense, and estate-adjacent real property disputes. The procedure, the clerks' offices, and the recording rules are familiar from current, not past, work.

Estate and real property under one roof.

Deed fraud and partition matters routinely intersect with estate administration — a decedent's property conveyed without authority, a missing distributee, an administrator who needs clear title before sale. The firm's active surrogate's practice allows real property matters involving decedents to proceed without hand-offs between attorneys.

III

Direct work by a single attorney.

Every matter is handled directly by Fabrice K. Michel — from title reconstruction through pleading, lis pendens, discovery, and judgment. Clients speak with the attorney who files the case, not an associate who inherited it.

When to Engage Us

The Right Firm
for the Right Moment.

Real property litigation rewards early action. A forged deed on the record for weeks is harder to unwind than one caught within days. A chain of conveyances to downstream LLCs is harder to defeat after the final transferee has recorded. Engaging counsel at discovery — not after the first downstream buyer is in place — preserves remedies that otherwise close.

All inquiries are held in strict confidence. Consultations with Fabrice K. Michel are available by appointment.

Request a Consultation

You've discovered a forged deed

A deed you did not sign, or a conveyance by a deceased family member whose signature post-dates death, has been recorded against your property.

You're an executor or administrator with title problems

A decedent's real property shows a transfer the family did not authorize, or title must be cleared before the estate can sell or distribute.

You're facing HECM foreclosure

A reverse mortgage servicer has commenced foreclosure, and you need either a defense to retain the property or a coordinated sale to pay off the mortgage before judgment.

You hold property with co-owners who won't agree

A jointly held property, often inherited, has multiple owners who cannot agree on sale, buyout, or occupancy — and partition is required.

Get in Touch

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Your Real Property Matter?

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Phone(516) 440-3440 · (347) 588-7668

Emailinfo@michel-law.com

Office277 Northern Blvd, Suite 100
Great Neck, New York 11021

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