Buying Your Own Home:
The Need for an Attorney's Counsel & Advice
After you find the house that you want to buy, you will be asked to sign a binder. Be sure that any binder that you sign contains the word, " subject to attorneys approval ." Without this phrase, the binder can be a legal contract and make you responsible to purchase the home when you are not truly prepared to do so.

An attorney will help you to prepare a complete contract which will include all necessary clauses to protect you. Privately prepared contracts of sale will provide you with the right to have a thorough inspection of the home by a licensed engineer so that you can ascertain whether the heating, plumbing, electrical and mechanical systems, roof and structural elements are in good working order, and provide you an opportunity to have a termite inspection as well as a title search of the County Registers Office to ensure that the seller has the full and unquestioned right to sell you the house. Most importantly, the contract will be conditioned upon you obtaining a mortgage loan in the amount that you need to go through with the purchase.

Whether you are the seller or buyer, you should understand the contract terms and how they affect you. The other parties to the contract are under no obligation to tell you what the contract means and you may not understand the legal meaning of much of the terminology. Remember one important point -- the seller, broker and bank in the transaction may have an attorney representing each of their interest. An attorney representing any of these parties is not your attorney. It is your own responsibility, as the buyer, to seek the professional advise of an attorney to protect yourself and to be sure that you get precisely what you are legally entitled to receive.

Buying your home is a major investment. In the long run it is likely to be more economical to have competent legal advise in making the purchase since you risk the trouble and expense that could result from not having that advice in the first place. If you are planning on buying a house, we will make sure that you are protected and that you get precisely what you are legally entitled to receive.

Sanders, Sanders, Block, Woycik, Viener & Grossman, P.C. Updates
Sanders, Sanders, Block, Woycik, Viener & Grossman, P.C. is proud to announce that E. David Woycik has made partner and that the name of the firm has been changed to Sanders, Sanders, Block & Woycik.

Mr. Woycik is a Senior Trial Attorney, a graduate of Hofstra Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1981. Mr. Woycik began his career as an Assistant District Attorney. In 1988, Mr. Woycik began trying civil cases and has since obtained numerous large verdicts for injured victims. Mr. Woycik is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United State Army Reserves and served during Desert Storm for which he was awarded the Bronze Star and Army Commendation Medal for Meritorious Service. He currently teaches Trial Advocacy for a program at Hofstra University Law School.

Congratulations to Mr. Woycik for making partner and for obtaining a recent jury verdict of One Million Dollars for a client who sustained compression fractures in her back as a result of a motor vehicle accident in which their vehicle was struck by a police car.

While the defendant, the City of New York Police Department, argued in that case that the police car had sirens on and was heading towards an emergency, an argument which would effectively eliminate plaintiffs ability to recover, the jury obviously believed Mr. Woycik and the witnesses put on by the plaintiff who testified that the police car did not have any sirens on when it entered the intersection against the light. Mr. Woycik was able to convince a jury to give our client a large verdict where initially it may have appeared that there was not a valid claim.

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