Tax Sale Advice & Litigation Specialists

Representing Tax Sale Investors Since 2001

Tax Sale Advice & Litigation Specialists

Representing Tax Sale
Investors Since 2001

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Mission Statement

Our mission at Louisiana Tax Sale Lawyers is to provide high-quality advice and legal representation to tax sale investors. We assist clients by working to resolve tax sale issues, ensure that the requirements of the law are satisfied, and enable our clients to obtain good returns on their investments, including obtaining merchantable insurable title to any properties they acquire. 

Tax Sale Law | Quiet Title Litigation | Defend Nullity Actions

Louisiana Tax Sale Lawyers specialize in tax sales and related property issues. We offer advice and legal representation in all phases of the tax sale investment process. Whether you are an institutional investor with a large portfolio or a first-time investor hoping to acquire a neighborhood property, Louisiana Tax Sale Lawyers can help you analyze the risks and rewards of tax sale investing, suggest investment strategies, assist in providing noticing required by law, file lawsuits to quiet tax sale titles, defend nullity actions, and help place you in possession of any tax sale properties you acquire.

Experienced Tax Sale Lawyers

James E. Uschold – Owner, Principal Attorney – Jim started handling tax sale matters in 2001. He is a member of the Louisiana Law Institute’s Tax Sales Committee which is working to revise Louisiana’s tax sale laws for the benefit of taxing authorities, tax collectors, tax sale investors, and property owners.

Mark J. Boudreau (The Boudreau Law Corporation, APLC) – of Counsel – Mark began working with Louisiana Tax Sale Lawyers in 2017. He has more than 20 years of experience in real estate law, including more than 15 years as an owner or partner in a title company.

Paul W. Pritchett (Pritchett Legal Services. LLC) – of Counsel – Paul began working with Louisiana Tax Sale Lawyers in 2023. He is an experienced tax sale investor and tax sale lawyer. He is a member of the Louisiana Law Institute’s Tax Sales Committee.

Notable Court Decisions

The firm has been involved in numerous reported decisions involving tax sales and related issues:

  • NAR Solutions, Inc. v. Kuhn, 2022-00425 (La. 12/1/22) (holding that where a 100% owner who was duly notified of the tax sale did not file a nullity action, the trial court properly entered judgment quieting title; also holding that the burden is on the former owner to defeat the presumption of a valid tax sale and the presumption of the regularity of all matters regarding the tax sale).

  • In re Precept Credit Opportunities Fund, L.P., 2022-0067 (La. App. 4 Cir. 9/16/22), 348 So. 3d 844, 849, writ denied, 2022-01528 (La. 12/6/22), 351 So. 3d 364 (holding that judgment quieting title in a monition action is res judicata to a later-filed action to annul tax sale).

  • In re Precept Credit Opportunities Fund, L.P. (Reynolds), 2022-0067 (La. App. 4 Cir. 9/16/22), 2022 WL 4285372 (affirming judgment sustaining exceptions of preemption and res judicata and dismissing petition to annul an earlier judgment which quieted tax sale title in a monition action)
  • Precept Credit Opportunities Fund, L.P. v. Walker, 2021-0670 (La. App. 4 Cir. 6/22/22), 343 So. 3d 299 (affirming judgment quieting tax sale title in a quiet title action)
  • Precept Credit Opportunities Fund, L.P. v. Elmore, 2021-0502 (La. App. 4 Cir. 4/20/22), 338 So. 3d 87, writ denied, 2022-00782 (La. 9/20/22) (affirming judgment quieting tax sale title in a quiet title action; holding that lack of pre-sale notice is not grounds to annul tax sale and that post-sale notice at least six months prior to expiration of redemption period is sufficient)
  • In re Precept Credit Opportunities Fund, L.P. (Lewis), 2021-0428 (La. App. 4 Cir. 1/19/22), writ denied, 2022-00341 (La. 5/10/22), 337 So. 3d 910 (affirming judgment quieting tax sale title in monition action; holding that a failure to include “required” information in a post-sale notice did not render the notice defective; holding that the statute was directory rather than mandatory)

  • PCOF Properties, L.L.C. v. Joseph, 2021-0341 (La. App. 4 Cir. 12/1/21), 332 So. 3d 220 (affirming judgment quieting tax sale title in quiet title action; holding that proper notice stated in the petition was not nullified by inaccurate notice stated in the same petition)

  • Dave v. Witherspoon, 2020-0239 (La. App. 4 Cir. 11/4/20), 310 So.3d 593 (affirming judgment sustaining exception of lis pendens; holding that an owner served with a quiet title lawsuit must file a reconventional demand to annul in the quiet title action rather than file a separate nullity action)

  • 1100 S. Jefferson Davis Parkway, LLC v. Williams, 2014-1326 (La. App. 4 Cir. 5/20/15), 165 So. 3d 1211, 1214, writ denied, 2015-1449 (La. 10/9/15), 178 So. 3d 1005 (affirming judgment holding that prospective buyer breached an agreement to purchase property) 

  • Smith v. Brumfield, 2013-1171 (La. App. 4 Cir. 1/15/14), 133 So. 3d 70 (holding that “once the property owner timely redeems his property, the rights of the tax sale purchaser to the ownership or possession of the property are dissolved”)

  • Succession of Caldarera v. Zeno, 2009-1397 (La. App. 4 Cir. 7/16/10), 43 So. 3d 1080, writ denied, 2010-1909 (La. 11/5/10), 50 So. 3d 810 (holding that an owner could redeem a tax sale after the redemption period expired where the City had refused a timely attempt to redeem the tax sale because tax bill number did not match the property description on tax sale deed)

  • Side By Side Redevelopment, Inc. v. Marshall, 2009-1430 (La. App. 4 Cir. 6/30/10), 43 So.3d 1059 (holding that a non-profit tax sale purchaser could not challenge later where the tax sale purchaser had failed to timely request a non-profit exemption and had failed to pay the disputed taxes under protest and file a timely action for refund) 

  • Padilla v. Schwartz, 2006-1517 (La. App. 4 Cir. 3/11/09), 11 So. 3d 6, amended on reh’g (Apr. 15, 2009) (when a tax sale is annulled, the tax sale purchaser is entitled to be restored to status quo ante, including reimbursement of renovation costs)

  • New Orleans Redevelopment Auth. v. Lucas, 2002-2344 (La. App. 4 Cir. 8/25/04), 881 So. 2d 1246, 1247, writ denied, 2004-2755 (La. 1/28/05), 893 So. 2d 75(tax sale purchaser did not have the right to challenge an expropriation where the tax sale deed had not been recorded at time of expropriation judgment)