Community Association Law: Cases and Materials on Common Interest Communities (Carolina Academic Press Law Casebook Series)

Today's most popular form of residential development is the community association. Tens of millions of Americans and countless more people around the world live in common interest communities.

This book is structured to provide a thorough introduction to the substantive law of common interest communities. It seeks to assist the reader in grasping obvious and subtle qualities of both the theory and the practice of community association law.

Notes and Problems throughout the book are taken from reported cases and from the contributed experiences of practitioners throughout the United States as well as the experiences of the authors and others who deal with these issues daily.

The book weaves threads of corporate law, municipal law, contract law, and other disciplines into basic principles undergirding community association law (property and servitude law). It also deals with the evolution of community association law and the variations and twists as different state courts address the issues and reflect changes in developmental experience.

Hyatt and French address concerns over the juxtaposition of the group and the individual, the various methods of individual and group ownership, and the relationship between residential and nonresidential development, among others.