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What is a Vesting Order?

Answers to your property related questions from the Arnold and Baldwin team.

In simple terms, a vesting order is a court order that creates or transfers legal ownership of a property instead of a legal conveyance (the act of transferring an ownership interest in property from one party to another). It is discretionary and results from a finding by a court that fairness demands that the court act in a way to transfer property from one party to another.

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