Discrimination

Estate planning for graduates is one of the conversations Arizona families most often skip and most often regret skipping, because the legal shift that happens on a child's eighteenth birthday is immediate, automatic, and largely invisible until something goes wrong. On the day a child turns 18 in Arizona, parents lose the legal authority to make medical decisions, access medical records, manage financial accounts, or speak with the child's school about anything substantive. The child is an adult under Arizona law and is treated that way by hospitals, banks, universities, and government agencies, regardless of who is paying tuition or carrying the health insurance.

Short-term rentals in HOAs are one of the most misunderstood areas of Arizona property law, largely because two separate legal frameworks are operating at the same time and people frequently confuse them. Arizona has strong state preemption that prevents cities and counties from banning short-term rentals, but that preemption does not touch private restrictions in HOA declarations. The result is that an Arizona homeowner can be fully compliant with state law and city licensing requirements and still be in clear violation of the recorded CC&Rs governing their community.

A mid-year contract review is one of the most useful and most overlooked things an Arizona business owner can do, especially as summer approaches and disputes tend to surface from contracts that were signed months earlier and never revisited. By the time a vendor stops performing, a client refuses to pay, or an independent contractor pushes back on scope, the relevant contract is usually exactly as it was when it was signed. The work to prevent that dispute had to happen earlier. Mid-year is the natural checkpoint.

Non-compete and non-solicit agreements come up constantly in Arizona, and most people on both sides of one have the same basic question: does this thing actually hold up? The short answer is that Arizona enforces these agreements, but only when they are reasonable in time, geography, and the activity restricted, and only when they protect a real business interest beyond keeping a former worker out of the market.

Arizona homeowners associations must enforce their rules consistently, within the authority granted by their governing documents and state law, and not every aesthetic issue is legally enforceable. When an HOA steps outside those boundaries, homeowners have rights and defenses that are often overlooked.