Opinion ID: 2276676
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Did the former DeBaliviere association have authority to assign its rights to the new association? [4]

Text: Veal does not dispute that his property deeds contain restrictions making his use of the property subject to the former DeBaliviere Place Association's declaration. It also is undisputed that the declaration mandates the payment of assessments, interest and attorneys' fees and authorizes the DeBaliviere association to file liens and collect the amounts due by filing an action to foreclose. But the threshold question is whether the new DeBaliviere association is the appropriate party to enforce the declaration. To answer this question requires the Court, first, to determine whether the former association had the authority to assign its rights to the new DeBaliviere association and, second, if it did have such authority, to analyze and apply the language of the deeds' declaration at two different timesbefore the June 2006 assignment and after the assignment. When the former DeBaliviere association executed the agreement assigning its rights and delegating its duties under the declaration to the new DeBaliviere association in June 2006, the former association no longer was incorporated and was in the winding-up process. The new DeBaliviere association argues that it was authorized to enforce the declaration because the former DeBaliviere association properly assigned its rights and delegated its duties to the new DeBaliviere association. [5] For the assignment to be valid, the former DeBaliviere association must have authority to execute an assignment pursuant to its winding-up process and must have executed the assignment properly.