Time to get off the property
If such and such land is sold for such and such a price ...
James Brooks - Alaska Beacon
¶“This challenge isn’t about gaming. This is about jurisdiction over lands. We are asking a court to reaffirm what it has already said — the State maintains primary jurisdiction over Alaska Native allotments,” said Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor in a written statement announcing the lawsuit. ¶Allotments are parcels of land up to 160 acres in size that the federal government holds in trust for individual Alaska Natives and their families. ¶For decades, federal officials said that those parcels were not considered “Indian country” and thus not subject to the jurisdiction of tribes in the way that Indian reservations are.
Tribes are, well, nothing but extended families and groups of more or less distant relatives, and they don’t need to be treated any differently than that in court. All families have traditions and things they consider sacred, up to them to maintain among themselves.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY: FEATURED STORIES
Exploring Title Insurance, Consumer Protection, and Opportunities for Potential Reforms
If a title says you own land, what is an insurance policy to claim any different? Can you substantiate your purchase of the land in your own name with your own financial records? And again, what is a title insurance policy to claim otherwise?
If you owe money on your land, you can’t get any help from a title insurance policy to discharge debts, either.
The recorder of deeds would have to obtain such insurance on a wholesale basis for it to have any effect. Did you get your Real*ID® from the government? Whatever it is, “facts” like the ownership of land are what they are, and ultimately uninsurable.
It is not clear what sort of claims would ever arise under “title insurance” and what sort of losses might be covered under such policies under any circumstances, other than the insurance policy serving as an auxiliary recording of deeds.