Brian Carter and Margarita Rice successfully sought, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 473, an order vacating the defaults of three clients in a dispute between neighbors over the location of a pier along the parties’ common boundary in Clear Lake. The defaults were the result of a misunderstanding and faulty communications between an insurance...Read More

The firm concluded an interesting and successful representation of clients whose neighbor had engaged in what clearly appeared to be an unpermitted and unlawful cannabis cultivation activity, which activity compromised and interfered with the firm’s clients’ ability to safely and fully use a driveway that provided access to both properties.  The firm’s clients were the...Read More

Brian Carter and the firm successfully concluded, by settlement agreement, a long saga of a case arising out of oral dealings with a developer that purchased real property adjoining the firm’s clients’ property in Ukiah.  One of the most poignant lessons to be learned from this case is that if a developer ever approaches you...Read More

Brian Carter successfully negotiated a settlement agreement that resolved a long-running dispute between neighbors in a mountainous, residential area of Mendocino County, which dispute boils down to a dispute over water from a spring (which feeds a blue line stream). The recent multi-year drought has exacerbated tensions among neighbors in such areas, and when there...Read More

The firm successfully obtained a dismissal with prejudice from the plaintiffs in a case in which plaintiffs had sued the firm’s clients for a plethora of causes of action arising from an alleged partnership agreement related to cannabis cultivation.  Plaintiffs had asserted a cause of action for quiet title to real property that belonged to...Read More

Carter Rich PC law firm is happy to announce that Margarita Salcedo Rice, JD MBA has successfully completed all the requirements to be licensed by the State Bar of California to practice law in California.  Her dream to become a licensed attorney in California was fulfilled on May 7 when she learned she had passed...Read More

Brian Carter settled a case in which the firm’s clients sought to quiet title to a prescriptive access easement along a road that provides access to the East Fork of the Russian River, a valuable commodity in the dog days of summer in Ukiah.  The settlement provides for a stipulated judgment enshrining the easement on...Read More

Brian Carter helped the firm’s clients negotiate and consummate a sale of a family ranch on the Mendocino coast, which ranch had been in the clients’ family for generations and had been bequeathed to several siblings upon the death of the parents.  Such an arrangement is very common, but, unfortunately, so are disputes and divergent...Read More

Brian Carter and Margie Rice successfully represented a client in two related cases filed in federal district court in San Francisco.  The case grew out of the client’s neighbors’ cultivation of cannabis in a quiet, rural residential neighborhood, the client’s complaints to government officials, the government’s actions with respect to the neighbors’ cultivation, and the...Read More