Earn CE in Prince Frederick 11/8

November 8, 2018 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Running Hare Vineyard 150 Adelina Road Prince Frederick, MD 20678 $ 40 members – $60 non-members MEMBERS: Bring a non-member guest and you attend for free! Email MLTA@mdlta.com for a coupon code Register online | Register by paper Or contact MLTA@mdlta.com to register by email Title Talk –…

AmTrust Title Partners with CertifID to Help Prevent Wire Fraud for Agents

New York, New York   October 5, 2018 – AmTrust Title, a leading provider of title insurance and related services for the commercial and residential real estate industry, has partnered with CertifID, the real estate industry’s only identity management platform for wire fraud prevention, and today announces it will cover the costs associated with the transactional…

Word Search: The Deed is Done

Instructions Complete the puzzle below. Find words in any direction. Circle them by holding down your mouse as you drag it across the word. Are you a word-search-wiz? Volunteer to create next month’s puzzle in our comments! Send your word list by the 10th of any month to have your puzzle included in the next…

Shhh…Quiet Title

The Court of Appeals Likes Our Quiet Title Statute and Mentions Us Several Times in Estate of Zimmerman v. Blatter 458 Md. 698 (2018) We saw a need and we fixed the problem.  And now the Maryland Court of Appeals has recognized us for it.   In the opinion, the Court quotes the Fiscal and Policy…

MLTA Member running for State Delegate

September 3, 2018  – (Potomac, MD)  Harvey S. Jacobs, a Potomac, MD resident for the past thirty years, is running for the Maryland House of Delegates from Legislative District 15 as “The Common Sense Candidate.” It is the first time he is seeking public office.  “I plan to bring some common sense to the legislature…

2018-2019 Membership Renewal

On behalf of thousands of title insurance producers, settlement agents, title insurance underwriters, title abstracters, and affiliate groups, we welcome you to another year with the Maryland Land Title Association. Title Insurance is an often-misunderstood art. How many times have we explained what we do to consumers, real estate agents, or lenders? The necessity of…

MLTA Committee Chair Running for Register of Wills in Calvert County

MLTA’s very own Mark Lynch, Esq. is running for Register of Wills in Calvert County, Maryland. We congratulate Mark on his campaign and encourage all MLTA members to remain involved in shaping our industry. The Office of the Register of Wills is a public office established under the Constitution of Maryland. The Register is elected…