Governor DeSantis signed HB 799 into law on June 27, 2024, impacting all developments subject to covenants or restrictions of any flavor, whether residential or commercial.

The Live Local Act (Act), originally passed on March 29, 2023, was modified by SB328 on May 16, 2024. While the Act has been heralded as a solution to Florida's affordable housing shortage, it has faced roadblocks...

The Osceola Board of County Commissioners is proposing a 90-day county-wide moratorium on applications that would allow residential development on land zoned for non-residential uses, among other restrictions.

A downtown property owner — which objected to plans for the largest proposed residential project in the central business district — has dropped its appeal.

Responding to a Trump Executive Order, the Treasury Department has reviewed all significant tax regulations issued after December 31, 2015 and identified eight regulations to be reformed to mitigate the burden...

Do you have a tech business that you operate as a pass-through entity?

As previously discussed, the IRS and Treasury identified in July eight Obama era tax regulations that are burdensome on taxpayers. The next step for Treasury was to determine what to do with these regulations, and today we got Treasury's answer.

"It’s that time again"... As we have experienced in the past and most recently in 2009 and 2010, we are once again faced with the uncertainty of the estate and gift tax laws.

The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014 was created to identify and share cyber threat indicators, which are pieces of information necessary to describe or identify "malicious reconnaissance;" . . .

The status of the preliminary injunction which paused the nationwide enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act and its implementing rules (collectively, the "CTA")...

Anyone who has followed the on-again, off-again history of the Corporate Transparency Act's (CTA) Beneficial Owner Information (BOI) reporting requirements will not be surprised...

TOUSA was a homebuilder that invested in a joint venture known as Transeastern in 2005. Transeastern borrowed $560 million in a syndicated loan from certain lenders ("Transeastern Lenders").

Florida's Sixth District Court of Appeal (6th DCA), which considers appeals from trial courts in an area running from Orange County down to Collier County...

In its recent decision in Jahangiri, et al. v. 1830 North Bayshore, LLC, the Third District Court of Appeal asserted that a lease extension option based on "market rate" is insufficient to create a binding and ...

Anne-Marie Slaughter's July 2012 Atlantic article, "Why Women Still Cant Have it All" stirred up the coals in the ever-simmering firestorm regarding working women.

Lowndes is pleased to announce that attorney Tara Tedrow has been appointed to the inaugural Florida Hemp Advisory Committee by Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Nikki Fried.

In a landmark decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated a FTC cease and desist order which directed LabMD, a relatively small and now-defunct cancer testing laboratory, ...

Earlier this year, President Trump issued Executive Order 13789, which ordered the Treasury Department to review all significant tax regulations issued after December 31, 2015 and identify regulations...

A recent IRS memorandum (attached) could have significant negative tax implications for taxpayers involved in real estate funds.

Your marriage is in question and you are contemplating divorce.