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 A good real estate lawyer possesses several key characteristics that make them effective in handling real estate transactions and providing valuable legal guidance. When choosing a Real Estate Lawyers West Palm Beach, it is essential to consider these characteristics to ensure you have the right professional by your side.

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[TW for some; gets a little gruesome/violent]

The shipwreck was horrific, but I was lucky enough to survive, and what bits of the ship washed up with me were enough for me to create a makeshift cutting and hammering tool. With that, it took me roughly six months to get everything situated the way I’d prefer. Luckily, this island has an abundance of bamboo, which is easily one of the most versatile plants available in this climate. You can eat the shoots, build with it, burn it for fuel, use the fiber for clothing, and even create ink with it given enough time.

Between the bamboo, the coconuts, the other edible flora, and my luck with fishing, I’ve yet to have a problem feeding myself, and not having an electronic device connected to a world that constantly expects me to immediately respond to every notification has been one of the most freeing experiences of my life.

I can’t even say I’ve been particularly lonely for human companionship. Humans are awful creatures, and I’ve never really cared for dating. I’ve always thought I’d make the perfect candidate to be a hermit, and, come to find out, I am.

I’m living in my own personal paradise. I get up with the sun and have whatever day I feel like, then go to sleep to the sounds of the crashing waves and the swaying palm leaves. Who could ask for anything more?

Apparently, a real estate construction company is who. I’d been on my island for over three years when the first of their representatives showed up. They claimed to be investigating this “unknown” island for the purpose of claiming it and turning it into an “exclusive island getaway for the elite.” I told them they could get away from me and my island. It was mine. I owned it. They could shove off.

The next time they came, they brought lawyers to try to force me off my island, but the joke’s on them. I am a lawyer with a deep knowledge of international law, which applies to my island. Isla de Mi, as I call my island, is in international waters with no country holding claim. I told the lawyers they could take their company reps and shove off at high tide.

That’s when I started building traps around the beaches of my island. I had a feeling they were going to start being more covert in their attempts to remove me, and I assumed force was about to come into play.

They eventually proved me correct.

I found one of their men caught in a trap on the west side of my island, a black boat buoyed a few meters away from shore. He was sleeping in the hole I’d created, his jet-black wetsuit torn in places from the fall into the rock pit. I shifted the long spear I’d carried with me on my daily trap checking route so I could poke him with the dull end.

“What are you doing on my island?”

He groaned and then squinted up at me. “Get me out of here.”

“I don’t have to. You’re trespassing on my island, and I have every right to do with you as I see fit because, as far as anyone is concerned, this is my country. I rule it, and I believe in the death penalty.”

I could see his breath catch for a second. “Look, man, there’s no need to get violent here, okay?”

“No?” I used the dull end of my spear to poke him in the forehead. “Were you or were you not sneaking onto my island to remove me from it by any means necessary?”

“I think you have the wrong idea.” He tried to shift, but the sand I’d set up to fall in once someone hit the rocks slid more snugly around him. “I’m just trying to make money so I can live my life.”

“And I am trying to protect mine,” I replied with a sneer. I hated capitalism and was glad to be rid of it when I landed on my island. I’d completely forgotten about it, and, now, it was once again threatening to ruin my life. “After you die,” I said as I stared down at him, “I want you to know that I’m going to hang your body up for your company to see as a warning to not come back to my island.”

“Whoa, hold on a minute, buddy,” full panic finally set in on him, “there’s no need for that. Look, let me go, and I’ll tell them about this. I’ll convince them you’re too dangerous to try to force off of here.”

“No. I know how these things work, and the only thing that works is violence, unfortunately. Sadly for you, you’re going to be a means to an end, which requires your death.” I sighed at him as I began to turn away.

“Wait! You’re not just going to leave me here,” he screamed, but I kept walking. It took about 12 hours before he was silent. The next day, I went back and pulled the ship onto my island. A week later, I used the ship for scrap to construct the warning I’d told him I’d use his body to create.

When the next group arrived from the company, they pulled close to my island and saw the body. I saw one man grow violently ill immediately and another pull out a phone to make a call. A few hours later, they left.

It’s been over three months now, and the warning is still up, though not as gruesome as it once was, and I’ve been left blissfully alone.

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Prelude to self-destruction Chapter one

The parents

1967.... My parents were a couple of West Virginia hillbillies that fell in love and moved to Miami when I was three months old. My father an average hard working man. He worked hard to provide a modest home. He was the classic leave it to beaver type famly man but the hillbillie version with old fashion morals. A women stays home to make babies and has dinner on the table at 6pm. She does all the housework and picks up behind him. His ways, i think we're more of a 50's era way of life, not the 60's. A loving father who was consistent and dedicated to his family. One of the best fathers a kid could have. He made $2.60 an hour, and that was enough in 67 to purchase a modest home with a swimming pool and enjoy the Florida lifestyle. He was very much in love and happy.

My mother also a hillbillie from West Virgin had been born with a face that let her get away with anything. The complete package of stunning beauty and brains. The only thing holding her back was where she was born.

The move to Miami provided countless opportunities for both of them. Have you ever heard the saying you can bring a city girl to the country but you can't bring a country girl to the city? That was nothing but fact. It didn't take long for the big city of Miami to seep in. She had her second child and stay at home beauty was getting resless. The marriage started seeing stress, and arguing was common when dad got home. She wanted a job, and of course, dad wanted her home. She always had a way of getting her way. She was pregnant with my sister at this time and was growing more anxious. I dont know the story of why and i can't ask her now. she picked real-estate school. The 3rd child was born shortly before obtaining her real estate license. She went to work, and almost overnight, we went from modest income family to her getting as much as 20k in commissions a month. In the late 60s, that was a considerable amount of money. For a woman from West Virginia or anybody for that matter. She was at the top winning awards for best saleswoman. Along with the most commissions. I've overheard people at dinner parties say she could sell you a bag of sand while standing on the beach. She was brokering some of the most expensive properties in Miami beach to the elite wealthy from all over the U.S.

One of those Miami Beach homes sold to an organized crime family, and she made friends. The lavish parties became more frequently along with the arguments. My parents sold the modest home, and we moved into a million dollar 20 acre ranch in West Palm Beach. The elite, wealthy, hot spot had just started to get hot. She was now brokering lavish homes in both Miami and West Palm. This is where divorce is imminent I think as she traveled between cities not coming home. The arguments were loud and became violent. Eventually, both parents were not around much, and anytime we were all together, the violence would be bad. It was always my father leaving with various wounds and blood all over him. I would see my mother the next morning seemingly unphased. This went on for years. I wouldn't see my mother for a week or more at a time. I started seeing my mother with different men if she was even around. We spent most of our time with the live-in sitter. It had been a week or more since I'd seen her this time. My mother arrived home late in the evening with a man in tow dressed in a business suit, She introduced him asher lawyer to the sitter. She had filed for divorce on grounds of child abuse. She accused my father of molesting his own children. This could not be farther from the truth. He was devastated and not allowed to see his children and shamed on a complete lie. When I saw him, he was completely destroyed emotionally. As I got older, I despised her for that, but I had despised her for a lot of other things already.

I remember this night like it was yesterday eched in my memory forever. My mother had called him to the house for a talk, something about the divorce papers. A little while after my father arrived, the screaming and sounds of things in the house crashed into the walls and the floor just liike it had many times before.

I watched 3 men walk into the house and go straight to the kitchen. These were the same men i had seen at her office and separately for a long time now. I heard multiple voices now screaming in the kitchen, and it scared the shit out of me and ran back to my room to hide. Under my table at the window. I heard yelling and the big double front door open and slam against the wall. This shook everything in my room. My wall separates the living room. I hid under my table at the window and watched the 3 men drag my father into the front yard. I watched helplessly as three large men took turns beating my father. My father was a small man 5' 9" and 155 lbs. They took breaks only to yell at him and continue beating him. This went on quite a while, and i did not think this then as a child, but now remembering the ranch with its mile long driveway to the house. Nobody would hear anything in the front yard of this home. It was completely seclued and far away from the main road. As the men continued, the police arrived, and I was excited to see them. I remember feeling relieved, but the men kept beating on my father as they walked over to him, and they joined in beating him too. I can't remember feeling anything but complete sadness and horror at that moment and watched as they put my fathers lifeless body in the trunk of the police car.

To this day, I have only seen violent beatings like my father's received in movies. I didn't see my father again for a long time, thinking he was dead. My father and I only talked about this one time about 25 years ago. He did tell me it was my mothers doing which i knew already, and one of the thugs was her boyfriend at the time. He had been taken to an airport hanger, cleaned up, told him he would die if he came back handed a small amount of cash and put on a plane to Texas.

We didn't stay long in West Palm, moved to California. There were always a lot of drugs in the house. Hundreds of pounds of weed and several kilos of coke with giant bags of pills are always in the house. I know now the bags were Quyludes and amphetamine. There were a lot of violent arguments between my mother and whatever man was in the house. Large parties and fights. The fights would get quite violent. Only this time, my mother was the one bleeding and bruised. Sometimes police would arrive walking through the house with drugs everywhere you looked, but they never said a thing about them, it was like they were invisible and nobody ever went to jail. We had gone from Miami to California and had added another home in Daytona Beach in this cycle of chaos. While in California, my mother would go missing for weeks at a time. I shoplifted food to keep us fed. I received a call one night, and nobody said a word. It was just the sounds of my mother pleading for her life and getting a beating. That is a wonderful thing to hear as a child. I know it was purposely done. The reason i never knew. We stopped traveling and stayed in the Daytona home, mostly with the live-in sitter. The Daytona home was not as big or nice as the others. I believe this home was purchased by my mother and the others owned by the men she dated and those relationships were over. This is when i assume she was trying to get out of the drug dealing business. There were large quantities of drugs in the house but nothing like before.

This is where the smelly house guests would pop in from time to time to put me to sleep. I only woke up one time to what they were doing to me, and it's so horrifying that i don't talk about it, at least not in this chapter. My mother was rarely around, and sometimes we were left alone for a long period of time on our own but mostly with the sitter. The smelly house guest stopped drugging me, and my sister had taken my place. I suppose I had grown into something that these sick fucks didn't want. My brother was lucky and was spared any of the weirdness my sister and I endured. My sister, these days is way out of space, so i know it's done a number on her like it has me. She lives in a noisy place in her own mind to quite the demons. I dont know why, but I think it was just timing. My sister was the age they wanted and left my brother alone as far as I know. He could have blocked it out in a trauma response, though.My sister and I would talk of the abuse with my brother, and he remembers nothing. It was almost as if his mind from a certain period in time had been erased. I wish I'd had that superpower. With attention off of me, i just continued to numb myself with the vast amount of free drugs in the house and stayed in my room watching tv. At one point, I was 11 years old, consuming an 8 ball a day or more, I know now. My mother kept a fireproof box on a ledge inside the fireplace at the house in Daytona beach. There was always a few kilos in it in one big chunk.

I would help mysef to whatever I wanted and go back to my room. One night playing rough I knocked the couch on its side in the living room. That's where i found a paper grocery sack full to the top of $100 dollar bills. To this day I dont know how much that would be but I had grabbed several stacks and hit the streets of Daytona having fun. A 12 year olds dream come true I bought anything and everything at any place that was open. I couldn't spend it all and came home that night with a lot of $100 dollar bills in my pocket. A few days later I came in the ftont door and found my mom in a pool of blood. Not knowing what happened and immediately concered about the money I took I tried to put what was left back, it wasn't there. I assume I was responsible for her beating. A few days later I'm on a plane to go live with my father. Something that saved my life.

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The price isn't right.

October 9, 2023

Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen (pictured above having the last laugh), warned us about what an unmitigated fraud Trump was when he testified to Congress in February 2019. Trump, he said, grossly overstated his assets when applying for a loan in his failed attempt to buy the NFL's Buffalo Bills in 2014.

Convicted in 2018 of campaign-finance violations and other charges, Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison, but was released to home confinement after one year due to the COVID outbreak. However, when he announced his intention to write a tell-all book about how he covered up for Trump's crimes, Trump's subservient Justice Department had him sent back to prison. A court found this move to be so blatantly retaliatory that Cohen served out the rest of his sentence at home.

Last week, in the ongoing New York trial focused on Trump's fraudulent business practices, Cohen was back testifying how he and former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg were tasked with inflating assets to “obtain the number that Mr. Trump wanted.” One of the numbers that most interested Trump was the value of Mar-a-Lago, his tacky, vermin-infested resort in West Palm Beach, Florida. Trump has maintained Mar-a-Lago is worth "over a billion, probably a billion and a half."

But records provided by the Palm Beach County tax assessor reveal that the real value of the property was between $18 million and $26 million during the relevant period. Regardless, Trump recently posted on his failing Truth Social that the value of Mar-A-Lago is “100 times” the $18 million valuation. In other words, $1.8 billion.

In finding Trump committed fraud by illegally inflating property values to obtain bank loans, trial judge Arthur Engoron pointed out,

Donald Trump's statement of financial conditions for 2011-2021 value Mar-a-Lago at between $426,529,614 and $612,110,496, an overvaluation of at least 2,300% compared to the assessor's appraisal.

While appraised value is not the same as market value, Trump's Florida social club couldn't possibly be worth what he claims. And yet it's useful to remember that in 2020 Trump strenuously appealed the county's $26.6 million valuation as being too high. In fact, since the day he acquired it, Trump repeatedly sought the lowest possible valuations of Mar-a-Lago in appraisals.

But to quote Michael Cohen again, "It was my experience that Mr. Trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes…and deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes." In short, Judge Engoron's decision was correct. Trump is a fraud.

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Purchase contracts for single-family houses assessed in any event million overwhelmed 306% in March from a year sooner, the best expansion since the pandemic started, appraiser Miller Samuel Inc. likewise, business Douglas Elliman Real Estate said in a report. For apartment suites assessed at any rate million, deals jumped 392%.

Across all worth reaches, single-family contracts were up 202% a month prior to 1,263. Stamped courses of action for condos amounted to 1,608 - a 406% expansion. Premium for homes in the rich locale has endured, featuring a potential long-standing development design, according to Jonathan Miller, head of Miller Samuel. Purchases are heating up even as New Yorkers who got away from the city during the most extremely terrible of the Covid-19 erupt a year prior are starting to plot their return.

"You would calculate the force would ease now, however then it's procedure to accelerate," Miller said in a gathering. That "suggests that this is unquestionably not a fluttering change in conditions. This is undeniably a hidden change." New single-family postings in Palm Beach County fell 27% per month prior from a year sooner, agreeing the report. For apartment suites, the reduction was 17%.

Cash Street firms expecting to misuse a state with no close to home cost have hustled to set up exercises in South Florida, yet an enormous number of the freshest homebuyers may be coming from some spot other than New York: U.S. Postal Service and cell data show essentially somewhat level of Manhattanites who left the locale moved to the Sunshine State.

Just a brief time after lawyer Amy Bahl and her significant other sold their Palm Beach home for $7.3 million, it was back accessible in December for $8.2 million.At that point, the Bahls and their three kids moved to a house they purchased across the Intracoastal Waterway in West Palm Beach while they collect another spot on a waterfront bundle in North Palm Beach.

"We'd been examining it for a couple of years, yet this market asked us to go ahead and show it," Bahl said.So goes the Palm Beach real estate market 10 months into a pandemic. While New York's rustic zones, the Hamptons and Aspen all saw arrangements and costs rise a year prior, the activity in Florida's Palm Beach County, from Boca Raton to Jupiter, has been hazardously quick. The particular town of Palm Beach, somewhat of an island that is home to investors and President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club, has been ground zero for indisputably the most energized buying.

Cleaned mailers, random sells and texts — if you are a property holder, you've undoubtedly gotten more than one estimating your premium in selling your home amidst what is the most steamy real estate market in more than 10 years. If dealers have been holding down, this is an inconceivable opportunity to misuse, considering the way that the market will not keep going up never-endingly," said Kristina Krykhtin, a Realtor with Signature One Luxury Estates in Boca Raton.

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New Florida Law Speeds Up Process for Property Owners to Remove Unauthorized Occupants

Occupant Removal If you’re a property owner in Florida, you may already know how complicated it can be to regain control of your property when someone is staying there without permission. A new Florida law, Florida Statute §82.036, is here to make that process faster and more straightforward. Effective as of July 1, 2024, this law aims to give property owners a quicker path to remove unauthorized…

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Is adoption an alternative for lesbians and gays seeking legally-sanctioned relationships?

When John and Craig met in an Upper East Side bar in September, 1980, it could have been another classical Manhattan tale of two tricks passing in the night. The pair had little in common. Craig Burns was blond, boyish, 23. He was between jobs, visiting friends in New York. John Eberhardt, 58, was a Fire Island pioneer, having hammered together scores of beach houses in Cherry Grove during the 1940s before constructing his own wedding cake of a mansion, The Belvedere.

Nonetheless, John and Craig did what mismatched people often do. They fell in love. The next week John invited Craig out to the island and, as Craig recalls, "I kinda never left." This past spring, months shy of their ninth anniversary, the couple went one step further to acknowledge their relationship; Craig Burns became Craig Eberhardt. In a judge's chambers in West Palm Beach, John legally adopted his lover. Craig became his son.

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Adoption is yet another alternative for gays and lesbians who seek legal recognition of their relationships. Many do it to ensure financial protection for lovers in the event of their death; others see it as the only same-sex union likely to be sanctioned by the law in this era.

But adoption is not a foolproof shelter against the bigotry of our legal system. In the early 1980s in New York State, gay adoptions caused a stir in the legal system, challenging the definition of adoption and provoking progressive decisions in two important cases: Adult Anonymous I and II.

In the latter, handled by Lambda Legal Defense Fund's William J. Thom and heard in 1982, a 32-year-old male petitioned to adopt a 43-year-old. Partial motivation was financial; the building where the pair lived was going co-op and the landlord was evicting those not on the lease. Initially dismissed by Family Court, City of New York, the petitioners appealed the case to the State Supreme Court Appellate Division. The decision was reversed and petition granted, since the Family Court decision was based on its narrow interpretation of the nature of family, not the adoption statute itself, which expresses no limitations. "The 'nuclear family' arrangement is no longer the only model of family life in America," the decision challenged.

In addition, constitutional law was cited, where homosexual relations in private are protected in New York under the right to privacy. Through some circuitous logic, it was proposed that a petition for a father-son adoption by two homosexual men raised the spectre of technical incest. However, it was ruled that "incest in general involves blood relatives." More facetious was the subsequent observation: "And, of course, the taboo against incest, grounded in eugenics, has little application in a relationship which can hardly result in offspring."

However, these legal strides were to be reversed two years later. The New York State Court of Appeals, filtering decisions through a screen of homophobia, effectively put a halt to overtly homosexual same-sex adoptions by lovers. In the Matter of the Adoption of Robert Paul P. in 1984, a 57-year-old man was denied his petition to adopt his 50-year-old lover, although they had lived together continuously for 25 years.

Michael Lavery, a New York City lawyer and co-founder of the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, handled the case. Lavery, a consistent fighter for gay and lesbian rights, has argued cases for Dignity, the gay Catholic group, and Integrity, the Episcopal sect. He acknowledges the misstep made by the two lovers: they did not attempt to hide the sexual nature of their relationship. The legal gay-bashing continued; the court questioned the validity of adoption as a way to halt an eviction. "It is nothing more than a cynical distortion of the function of adoption."

Most damning of all is this paragraph: "Adoption was never intended as a haven where parties might shelter emotional relationships for which no statutory provision has been made. If the homosexual relationship is to receive legal sanction as a family unit, such recognition must come from the legislature, and not the courts through the guise of adoption."

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John and Craig were inseparable during the first three months together. In December, the pair were visiting John's cousin, who is also gay, in California. Walking through the celebrated Forest Lawn Cemetery one sunny afternoon, observing the gaudy sculpture and meticulous landscaping, John and Craig came upon a small stone bench. Carved into the decoration was an Irish quotation about true love lasting forever. The lovers impulsively joined hands and recited the quote. "From then on, we decided we were a married couple," Craig said.

But both knew that a two-minute wedding in a cemetery held no legal weight. And as the years passed, and John and Craig grew closer, they began thinking about events that could separate them. The question of a legal relationship became more insistent this past year. A friend of the couple, a septuagenarian psychologist from Manhattan had successfully adopted his 54-year-old lover in order to pass on his magnificent Riverside Drive apartment after he passed on. At the age of 65, John was still hardy and working on constant improvements to The Belvedere. But the issue of a successor loomed, he recalled. Who would look after his 26-room palace?

"For one thing, passing on this empire" — Eberhardt assumes a mock hauteur to his voice — "it takes the right kind of person. I don't know who could do it, except for someone who is talented and capable. My older brother or sister just couldn't manage this, what with the milieu of the town, this gay world." Craig was the only choice.

Craig's concerns about a legal relationship with John were just as keen. "In the case of catastrophic illness, I would be John's next of kin and would have the say about his care and well-being, as opposed to a family throwing me out on the street and putting him in a nursing home." In addition, the pair learned that real estate passed on from father to son is taxed differently than it would be for a commercial transaction. John and Craig were amassing a list of basic rights afforded heterosexuals and denied homosexuals. After several talks with their attorney, who is gay, the two agreed to file papers for adoption.

John recalls the day he and Craig went to the courthouse for their petition, accompanied by their attorney. Amongst rows of mothers and fathers with their small children, John and Craig sat: a smiling gray-haired man of 67, with twinkling mischievous eyes, and a solid, big-limbed blond hunk of 32. Once inside the judge's chambers, Craig recalls, "I told the judge our relationship is like father and son." The matter of ownership of The Belvedere was sidestepped. "They seem to frown on people [petitioning adoption] for financial reasons. They prefer to have people doing it for emotional reasons." The issue of homosexuality was not broached.

Craig required written consent from his parents to agree to the adoption. "They knew that it was, in no way, a slighting of them. I still consider them my parents and our relationship is just as good as it's ever been. This was just a way for John and I becoming legally married like my sister and her husband." In deference to his folks, Craig Richard Burns legally changed his name to Craig Burns Eberhardt. The Burns knew of their son's homosexuality; he had come out to them at age 18 as a prelude to the announcement that he had fallen in love with a man and was moving in with him. The relationship lasted three months.

The final legal step in adoption is the destruction of Craig's original birth certificate, which resides in Chicago. Another one will be issued naming John as his legal parent. Ultimately, there will be no legal record of Craig ever being related to the Burns family.

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In the case of Robert Paul P., the court avails itself of the same self-reflexive homophobia that was employed in the Hardwick sodomy decision back in 1986. Observing that legislation did not include homosexuals in adoption laws any time since the laws were enacted in 1873, the court questions why the status quo should be upset. Another absurd leap of logic observes that since New York sodomy laws were overturned just in 1980, it seems unlikely that the same legislature would want homosexual relationships themselves acknowledged through adoption. Another decision went so far as to term the notion of sexual intimacy between adopter and adoptee as "utterly repugnant."

In most cases, the court expresses itself carefully in gay or lesbian issues. "Court people are sophisticated enough not to be overt," Lavery said. "The less overt are the ones most difficult to pin down and accuse of anti-gay decisions. No one will say, ‘We're not going to allow this adoption because they're a couple of fags.’”

But read between the lines. The court criticized the men for looking to adoption as a way to legally share a lease and prevent an impending eviction. The legal jargon was merely a smokescreen; once again the court was enacting laws that refused to acknowledge a same-sex relationship. In fact, Lavery points out, "the concept of adopting children is a product of the post-Victorian times." Beginning during the ancient Roman era, adoption was a legal tool for economic, political and social objectives, especially when a wealthy man did not have a natural heir.

But the issue of gay adoption prompts mixed reactions. Paula Ettelbrick, Lambda's legal director since 1985, considers it a flawed strategy, and a compromise to receiving basic gay and lesbian rights. "The effort of our community should be to obtain recognition for our relationships as they are, not subverting nor distorting them into parent-child relationships."

Lavery also has a diplomatic party line. Quietly, he suggests that same-sex couples who maintained the parent-child charade have had their petitions for adoption granted. "One should not assume that after the 1986 Court of Appeals decision, there have been no gay adoptions." After all, he points out, when there is no hitch to the proceedings, the request for adoption is kept confidential. There is no record of successful homosexual adoptions. It is only when the initial petition is denied and the decision appealed that the case finds its way into public record.

Lavery recalls one case where a successful professor in his mid-40s asked to adopt a man in his mid-20s after they had lived together five years. The older man presented himself as advisor and mentor; a role model that the younger man lacked as a child. When challenged as to whether their relationship was actually of a sexual nature, the younger man grimaced and told the court, "No way!" The petition was approved.

He offers an unsettling clarification: "If you were rich and powerful, [lover adoptions] probably could be done," but not for the average guy on he street. Lavery alludes to an internationally- known operatic composer who adopted his young lover, as well as a successful entrepreneur from Chicago who followed suit.

The recent State Court of Appeals case involving Miguel Braschi was a landmark case insofar as acknowledging gay and lesbian relationships. Braschi was awarded his deceased lover's lease after their 10-year union, but this decision will have no impact on the adoption issue, Lavery offered. The courts pulled their punch, he added, in extending the ruling to rent-controlled apartments, not rent-stabilized buildings. Gays and lesbians will still find the need to petition for adoption to maintain cohabitation or property ownership.

The gay psychologist who adopted his younger lover agrees on that count. The man, who requested anonymity, suggested that a real estate pressure group influenced the legislature in the Braschi case. "They've stopped people from using adoption as a way around the problem of losing your apartment if your name is not in the lease. Adoption should be a freedom."

When his lover of 25 years died, the man was left alone in the six-room penthouse apartment on Riverside Drive. Eventually he met his second lover, who moved in six months later. A rash of abusive letters from the man's landlord began to come, insisting that the lover move out since he was not on the lease. "They persecuted us for three years. That was the trick in those days," he said. "They thought the only way to get me out of the apartment was to separate me from my lover. We said 'fuck you' and went through the channels of adoption."

Officially, Lavery will not handle an adoption case where the same-sex petitioners are involved in a sexual relationship. The case is doomed, he insists. NMostcases I handle are done pro bono. It's not worth the time and effort if the case is denied without any advancement." The strategy of gay adoption "is not a winnable battle at this time," he added "A gay sexual relationship will not meet the legal definition of adoption."

"It's necessary to convince heterosexual judges, as well as other gays, that two gay men can have a relationship that is not necessarily sexual." The unspoken message here is: keep a lid on intimacy in court and the petition will sail through. Acknowledge your lover relationship and prepare for rejection. What advice does Lavery give his clients in this situation?

"There's a thin line between deception and downplaying," Lavery says. "If [the partners] can't be frank when the question comes up, it could be disastrous."

Ettelbrick points out alternatives to adoption, adding, "There are ways that we can take care of our vulnerabilities under the law." These include wills, power of attorney designation and conservatorships.

Lavery is guarded in his appraisal of the future of gay legal rights and the recognition of homosexual unions. “We have some ways to go; we are still too conveniently overlooked, unless somebody is waving a sign in your face, saying, ‘What about us?’”

* * * *

John and Craig are sitting in the breakfast nook off the kitchen of The Belvedere, taking a breather from last-minute renovations. By November 1, they will close up the castle and head to Florida to run another guest house called Villa Fontana. Craig ponders the longevity of their relationship, and feels it stems, in part, from a respect for fidelity during sexually liberated days. "We've always been just a monogamous couple," he explained, "and I think that's why it's worked for us this long. We made a commitment to each other, and this year we reinforced the commitment to each other."

— Jay Blotcher, OutWeek Magazine No. 18, October 22, 1989, p. 36.

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Nothing moves on Ragsdale Road. Cars whiz past on the 10 Freeway about 100 yards away.

At an abandoned gas station, the pumps are stripped of their outer shells and wiring. The convenience store is covered in graffiti, its door kicked in, contents looted. Nearby restrooms are smashed and unworkable, but the stench suggests that hasn’t stopped everyone from using them. The sign over the station announces 24-hour service, a claim that hasn’t been true in years.

Desert Center doesn’t look like it’s worth $6.25 million.

That’s what Riverside resident Balwinder Singh Wraich paid at auction July 13 for the 1,034.78 acres of property in and around Desert Center. What he does with the land could radically transform a region that’s home to people who’ve spent generations in desert solitude.

Here’s what else $6 million can get you in today’s Southern California real estate market:

A 3,200-square foot Palm Springs house, designed by architect Ray Kappe, with spectacular views of the city and surrounding mountains.

A 6,000-square foot, six-bedroom, seven-bathroom “retreat” in Malibu Canyon, on an 8-acre property.

A 3,750-square foot, five-bedroom, four-bathroom house literally on the beach in Dana Point.

But Desert Center is a largely empty desert outpost in the Chuckwalla Valley, about 50 miles from either Blythe or Indio, almost exactly halfway between Los Angeles and Phoenix. The land Wraich bought includes two gas stations, a cafe, a hotel, store, school and the gravesite of a former cafe cook — all abandoned.

Desert Center has no city council or other government. But the U.S. Census Bureau lists it as a spot where people have come together, even though it’s not a formal town or city. The bureau estimates 216 people lived there in 2019, with a median age of 70.6 years old.

The Desert Center Unified School District teaches 29 students, according to the California Department of Education, ranging from kindergarten through 8th grade. The district operates just one of its former five schools. The others shut down after Kaiser Steel’s nearby Eagle Mountain mine closed in 1983. High school students travel about 50 miles each way to attend classes in Blythe. The shell of a former school, caked in graffiti, with broken glass and ceramic tile covering the floor, is visible to freeway motorists zipping past Desert Center.

Broken windows are seen at an abandoned Desert Center school Friday, July 30, 2021. The mostly deserted area in eastern Riverside County has been sold. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

An abandoned home in Desert Center is seen Friday, July 30, 2021. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Drivers use an abandoned gas station in Desert Center as a rest stop Friday, July 30, 2021. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Residents cool off in Lake Tamarisk near Desert Center on Friday, July 30, 2021. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

As the thermometer topped 100 degrees, residents take a dip in Lake Tamarisk near Desert Center on Friday, July 30, 2021. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

A resident closes her eyes while floating in Lake Tamarisk near Desert Center on Friday, July 30, 2021. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Mystik Souza, 9, runs back to shore while playing in Lake Tamarisk near Desert Center on Friday, July 30, 2021. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

A view of homes by Lake Tamarisk near Desert Center is seen Friday, July 30, 2021. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Homes by Lake Tamarisk near Desert Center are seen Friday, July 30, 2021. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

The Desert Center Cafe sits abandoned Friday, July 30, 2021. The outpost in eastern Riverside County has been sold for $6.25 million. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

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The road behind

According to legend, in 1915, Kansas-born Stephen Ragsdale and his wife Lydia were driving to Los Angeles, before breaking down on the dirt wagon road between Blythe and Indio. Rescued by a prospector, Ragsdale saw opportunity in the other motorists crossing the Colorado Desert.

“He’d seen numerous people who had been unprepared crossing the desert, so he conceived of the idea of having a rest stop at the halfway point,” said Steve Lech, a historian and author who co-writes The Press-Enterprise’s Back in the Day local history column. “That’s why he called it Desert Center: It was kind of a marketing ploy.”

Opened in September 1921, Desert Center was a family affair.

“He would run the tow truck and pump gas. His wife would run the cafe and do the cooking,” Lech said. “He had two sons and a daughter and they would do auto repairs and work at the center.”

Ragsdale, rebranding himself “Desert Steve,” had dreams of expanding Desert Center, according to Lech. But Ragsdale believed in temperance: Even after Prohibition ended in 1933, he didn’t want tenants to serve or sell alcohol. His lawyer said Ragsdale couldn’t legally prohibit alcohol. So Desert Center stayed small.

Margit Chiriaco Rusche’s parents started the competing community and rest stop of Chiriaco Summit, 19 miles to the west, on the western rim of the Chuckwalla Valley. They spent decades as frenemies of the Ragsdales.  According to Rusche, Steve Ragsdale vowed to “run that upstart Italian out of town” when Joe and Ruth Chiriaco moved there in 1933.

“It was very remote,” Rusche said. “As little kids, we pumped gas, we made hamburgers.”

Today, she’s CEO of Chiriaco Summit. It offers food, gas and the General Patton Memorial Museum for road-weary travelers. A motel and a mobile home and RV park are planned.

After his death in 1971, Ragsdale’s son Stanley ran Desert Center until he died in 1999. He kept it small, turning down offers from fast-food chains and others who wanted to “improve” the outpost.

Stanley’s six kids couldn’t agree on how to manage the businesses, so Desert Center gradually shut down. Their battle spent two decades in probate court. It might be the longest probate case in county history, according to Paula Turner, the real estate agent whose Coachella Valley firm handled the sale.

“I haven’t sold a town before,” she said. “This is my first town!”

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Even before the auction, Rusche had tried to buy a piece of Desert Center more than once.

“When they were closing down, we were going through a contract to lease the (Desert Center) coffee shop to update it. Thousands and thousands of dollars later, one of the brothers said ‘No, not with a Chiriaco,’” she said.

Rusche then tried to buy part of the property, but the family member selling it didn’t have the clear legal right to do so.

Finally, Riverside County had enough.

“The judge said ‘It’s been 20 years, we’re putting it up for auction,’” Rusche said.

Wraich did not respond to repeated requests for comment. His family runs the Fontana-based trucking company Wraich Transport, which includes the Wraich Travel Plaza truck stop in Fontana.

The property was put up for auction for $5 million, before Wraich outbid Rusche, winning Desert Center with a $6.25 million bid. That brought an end to the Ragsdales’ ownership of the community founded by their patriarch. Members of the Ragsdale family declined to comment.

“That’s how it goes,” Rusche said. “We decided that dirt wasn’t worth that much money.”

In the end, the Chiriacos did get a bit of Desert Center, purchasing a totem pole that once stood outside the cafe. It will be going up at Chiriaco Summit soon, Rusche said.

The here and now

Trucks idle in vacant lots, curtains drawn as drivers presumably get some sleep.

The roof of the Desert Center Market is caved in, roof beams crashed down around empty ice cream and soda refrigerators. A sign in the window reads “Sorry, we’re closed.”

Someone appears to have walked away from the boarded-up cafe mid-cleaning. A bottle of Windex and a roll of paper towels on a table caked in a thick layer of dust are visible through the windows.

Only the U.S. Post Office is still open. The other three shops in the tiny strip mall are long since closed. They seem to have shut down mid-renovation, with paint cans and drop clothes covered in dust visible inside.

“They let it go really bad,” said Harold Copeland, whose first job was working at Desert Center in 1977. “They should have sold something a long time ago and made something of it.”

Few live in Desert Center today. The biggest nearby population center is at Lake Tamarisk, 2 1/2 miles away. A few dozen homes cluster around a county-run nine-hole golf course. The residents are mostly “hermits,” according to one.

Copeland grew up in Eagle Mountain, moving there in 1967. He now lives in Indio, but his mother still lives at Lake Tamarisk.

“They love it out there because it’s just so quiet,” Copeland said. “The streets rolled up at 6 o’clock, but we learned to live with it.”

The lack of things to do in the Chuckwalla Valley is part of the attraction for some.

Residents cool off in Lake Tamarisk near Desert Center on Friday, July 30, 2021. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

“There’s no temptations,” said Adrianna Ornales, taking a midday dip in Lake Tamarisk with other members of the Set Free church congregation. The pool at the nearby community center is dry and the center itself locked up. It was 104 degrees at midafternoon on July 30.

Ornales moved to Desert Center in 2018, along with about four dozen other members of her church, to escape the seductions of the big city.

“It’s our little safety bubble out here,” she said.

Ornales works at Lake Tamarisk’s one-room library, open three days a week, that shares a building with the small county firehouse.

She hopes Wraich can bring Desert Center back to life.

“I hope he does something with it,” Ornales said. “More job opportunities, so people can get on their feet.”

The other big population center is Lake Tamarisk Resort, a mobile home and RV park for those 55 years old and up. Many of the 150 trailers and RV spots are empty now, the snowbirds flown away to cooler climes. Once upon a time, it was a park for high-end Airstream trailers. Before that, it served the World War II era Desert Training Center first run by Major Gen. George S. Patton.

Brenda Cervantes, who with her husband has managed the resort about a year, also wants to see Desert Center revitalized.

“They need some business brought back here,” she said. “People call and say ‘Where’s your gas station?’”

The nearest one is 19 miles away, in Chiriaco Summit. Groceries mean a 50-mile trip to Blythe or Indio.

“We’re self-sufficient,” Rusche said. “That’s part of being desert people.”

Cervantes believes Desert Center can be restored without losing the quiet isolation residents enjoy.

“We’re hoping something good comes in,” Cervantes said.

But no one ends up staying in Desert Center by accident.

“We’re our own little oasis out here,” Cervantes said. “Most everyone comes here because it’s out of the way.”

The road ahead

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Copeland has high hopes for Wraich’s Desert Center.

“I think they’ll build a big truck stop right there and maybe houses or condos for the people who work there,” Copeland said.

Rusche is skeptical. Desert Center doesn’t have its own source of potable water, she said. And the historic buildings will need to be completely torn down.

Wraich has “got a lot of hoops to jump through,” Rusche said. “He’s got to get through the county process, which is hard.”

She thinks the land is best suited for something modest.

“Why build a truck stop in California so close to the border where they can get their gas so much cheaper than they can here?” Rusche said. “To me, it doesn’t make that much sense.”

Change has come to the desert, of course. North of Lake Tamarisk, a huge solar farm has gone in. And in cooler weather, visitors race at the Chuckwalla Valley Raceway. But most days are quiet, especially during the hottest days of summer.

Whatever else might change, Chuckwalla Valley residents say the desert’s appeal is eternal.

“It’s a really tight community still,” Copeland said.

When skeptics ask him about growing up in the Chuckwalla Valley, “I say ‘how many friends do you hang out with from your high school?’ And they say none, because there were 500 people in their graduating class. I still see everyone, because there were 35 in my graduation class.”

His graduating class still gets together annually, he said.

“It would be hard for me to live anywhere else,” Rusche said. “We have freedom and we have the mountains that are a different color every time you look at them.”

But for now, the traffic on the 10 keeps racing past.

-on August 13, 2021 at 01:23AM by Beau Yarbrough