Real estate licensees can develop promotions which do not violate
the prohibitions against fee splitting and kickbacks.
Not exact matches
Earlier this year, prior to Delaware's enactment of the
fee - shifting bylaw
prohibition, Pomerantz was on the vanguard of the fight
against fee - shifting provisions in a case of first impression in Strougo v. Hollander.
Specifically, it requires schools to include information regarding the
prohibition against pupil
fees and the complaint procedure in the annual Uniform Complaint Procedure.
The opinion further holds that the
fee arrangement would violate the
prohibition against giving anything of value to a person for recommending a lawyer's services.
The
prohibition against splitting
fees with non-lawyers is both protectionist and, to put it bluntly, dumb.
Tickets and
prohibitions against driving were once thought of as small potatoes, not really worth a lawyer's time or
fee.
-- Law societies: Instigate proceedings for the unauthorized practice of law only in cases where harm is alleged by a client of a non-lawyer provider, and drop the
prohibition against lawyers sharing
fees with non-lawyers.
While there may be debate about the practice of an outside investor covering costs awards, experts»
fees, disbursements or even the full expense of the litigation, the relatively few decisions in Canada in this area have all said that there is no
prohibition against it.
On December 9, 2002, Bill 213, the Justice Statute Law Amendment Act, 2002, overturned the previous
prohibition in Ontario
against contingency
fees, the last province in Canada to do so.
By its terms the bulletin «provides an overview of RESPA's
prohibitions against kickback and unearned
fees and general information on MSAs, describes examples of market behavior gleaned from CFPB's enforcement experience in this area, and describes the legal and compliance risks (it has) observed from such arrangements.»
Another problem is the
prohibition against referral
fees.
Existing attempts to deal with the problem through government - mandated disclosures, rules
against markups and
prohibitions of referral
fees have only added to the complexity of the process without preventing overcharges.
12 USC Section 2607 or Section 8 is titled
Prohibition against kickbacks and unearned
fees.
In October 2014, one of the Weekly NewsLINEs was dedicated to compliance with Section 8 of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) and
prohibitions against kickbacks and unearned
fees in residential real estate transactions.