LEGAL RESOURCE CENTREMoneylife Foundation's Legal Resource Information Centre's (LRIC) main objective is to provide information, advice and preliminary guidance to persons needing legal help or planning legal action in 10 defined areas.
You can seek help and guidance in following 10 areas such as CHS, property-related issues, Complaints to regulators, Consumer complaints, IT Act and civil liberties, Filing PILs, Whistleblowers, Sexual harassment case, Wills & nominations, RTI and Basic legal research.
We as society would like to charge the shop owner for encroachment and restrict usage of the area.
Is this possible legally? what would be steps and process to ensure shops cannot use that area?
CHS, property-related issues
My query I don't stay in India, can my mother provide an NOC to society to my elder brother for him to contest in the executive committee elections is he eligible. Basic legal research
My sisters invested a significant amount of money, including funds from a loan, into a scheme presented by an individual. This person is now failing to return the invested amount.
We are seeking legal guidance on the options available to recover the lost funds.
Could you please let us know if this is an area your firm handles and how we might proceed with seeking your advice?
Thank you for your time and consideration. Basic legal research
We feel society MUST charge new buyer in 2025 ALL ARREARS from 2012 CHS, property-related issues
Our society is having stack parking with two stack one at lower and other at above for some members and remain individual. I have been allotted upper stack parking. For operations and maintenance charges of stack/mechanical machine, who will bear? The members those having parking at lower level and those having individual parking not agreeing for share the said charges. Society also want to engage driver for removing the for wheeler from upper stack or lower stack, but members are not agreeing to share charges. It is very difficult to remove vehicle from upper stack on emergency till the owner of lower stack remove his vehicle specially during night or in his absence. Please advice what I do and what the bye laws says.
I shall be very grateful to you. CHS, property-related issues
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