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

Brian Carter completed the appellate briefing for the firm’s clients in a case in which he successfully opposed in the trial court (Mendocino County) an anti-SLAPP motion (Code of Civil Procedure, section 425.16) filed by the plaintiff/cross-defendant, but the plaintiff/cross-defendant then filed an appeal from the denial thereof.  Mr. Carter then filed a cross-appeal for...Read More

Brian Carter completed a successful representation of a client that had purchased residential real property from a seller that retained surrounding property. Seller subsequently claimed an access easement over a driveway that crosses the land the clients purchased. Seller filed and served a lawsuit claiming an implied and/or prescriptive easement. Lengthy negotiations ensued, during which...Read More

Brian Carter successfully concluded a representation of a client whose rural property relies and benefits substantially from a water pipeline that originates at a spring on the uphill neighbor’s property, and has so benefited for decades. The right to take water from the spring was never reduced to a writing, and recently someone destroyed the...Read More

Brian Carter represented the firm’s client in the sale of (i) all of the corporate stock of a local propane distributorship, and (ii) the real property upon which the business was operated, for total sale proceeds in the low to middle seven figures. The transaction was a purchase of a small company by a larger...Read More

Brian Carter successfully concluded a protracted dispute between the firm’s clients (lessees/optionees) and their lessors/optionors regarding a residential and commercial property. When a fire destroyed a four-plex on the property, lessors sought to terminate the clients’ lease and option, and failed to cooperate with the clients’ efforts to rebuild the four-plex with insurance proceeds. Lessors...Read More

Alexander Rich Client prevails in contest of competing probate petitions. Alexander Rich successfully obtained letters of administration for his client in a Mendocino County probate despite opposition and a competing probate petition from an heir. The client, a creditor of the estate, initially filed a probate petition in October. One of the decedent’s children filed...Read More