Protect Your Customer AND Yourself with ALTA Homeowner’s Policy
CLTA: Converage includes 1–8
ALTA: Coverage includes 1–42
- Someone else owns an interest in your title to the property
- A document is not properly signed
- Forgery, Fraud, Duress
- Defective recording of any document
- Restrictive covenants
- There is a lien on your title because there is:
- a deed of trust
- a judgment, tax, or special assessment
- a charge by the homeowners association
- Title is unmarketable
- Lack of right of access to and from the land
- Mechanic’s lien protection
- Forced removal of a structure because it:
- extends onto other land or onto an easement
- violates a restriction in Schedule B
- violates an existing zoning law
- Can’t use land for SFD due to zoning or restrictions
- Unrecorded lien by the homeowner’s association
- Unrecorded easements
- Others have rights arising out of leases, contracts or options
- Pays rent for substitute land or facilities
- Inflation protection
- You do not have legal right of access
- Building permit violations – forced removal*
- Subdivision Map Act violations*
- Zoning violations – forced encroachment*
- Boundary wall or fence encroachment*
- Restrictive covenant violations
- Post–policy defect in title
- Post–policy contract or lease rights
- Post–policy forgery
- Post–policy easement
- Post–policy limitation on use of land
- Post–policy damage from minerals or water extraction
- Post–policy living trust coverage
- Post–policy encroachment by neighbor other than wall or fence
- Enhanced access – vehicular and pedestrian
- Damage to structure from use of easement
- Post–policy automatic increase in value up to 150%
- Post–policy correction of existing violation of covenant
- Post–policy limitation of use
- Post–policy prescriptive easement
- Street address is correct
- Map not consistent with legal description
- Coverage for spouse acquiring through divorce
- Violations of building setbacks
- Discriminatory covenants
- Insurance coverage forever
*Subject to a deductible and a maximum indemnity liability, which may be less than the policy amount.
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Coverage is for 1 to 4 family residences.
This chart is intended for comparison purposes only and is not a full explanation of policy coverage. Policy coverages are subject to the terms, exclusions, exceptions and deductibles shown in the policy.
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