Cedulie Renee Laumann

Attorney Cedulie Laumann is the managing attorney and founding member of small law firm in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The firm handles real estate, small business, and estate/trust matters.

She enjoys helping clients reach positive solutions to their legal needs. Her firm employs innovative "flat fee" billing arrangements and fee options outside the traditional hourly based approach.

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Maryland

Since 2003

managing attorney

Arden Law Firm, LLC

Current

Adjunct Faculty

St. Joseph's University

Current

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Honors: Order of the Coif Top 10% of Graduating Class

Maryland State Bar

Member

2003 - Current

Q. What to do after separated spouse's death with children in Maryland?

March 20, 2025

A: If you did not waive rights in a prenuptial, then as surviving spouse you would stand in priority to open the estate. If your husband had no Will then the property would pass under the laws of intestate succession. How property would be distributed without a Will depends on whether your husband had children from any other union or whether all his children were also your children.

It should be pretty easy to determine whether or not your husband owned real estate (e.g., the home he lived in) or his vehicle. If you had no involvement whatsoever with his finances, then you could petition the court for a limited order to locate assets.

You are strongly encouraged to sit down and consult with an attorney. ... Read More

Q. Divorce and house buyout: future sale costs in Maryland

March 20, 2025

A: Hopefully an agreement will be very clear about the buyout (e.g., A will pay B $X or 1/2 of appraised value less mortgage or whatever it might be). Any questions about a specific agreement are best posed to the counsel who helped draft that agreement, and your specific wording may lead to a different answer, but it is not uncommon for people reaching an agreement on buyout to deduct the costs of sale that would otherwise be paid. The thought process goes something along these lines -- if we sold the house to a third party "C" for $200,000, we'd need to pay 5% in brokerage commissions, and would have $190,000 left to split amongst us which would be $95,000 each, so if either of us buys the other out we should pay $95,000 so the party who is not keeping the house would net the exact same as if they sold to a third party.

All such things are negotiable. If the agreement gives a specific dollar amount for a buyout then it would be less expected to subtract anything since the buyout figure would have already been negotiated.

While the above is not legal advice, I hope it is helpful. You may want to contact the counsel who helped draft the agreement and/or sit down with another attorney. ... Read More

Q. Need correct Maryland annotated code for $0 consideration Quitclaim deed transfer to LLC.

March 19, 2025

A: While deeds are not terribly complex, tax exempt deeds often have very exacting requirements. Our law firm regularly assists with exempt transfers to LLCs in MD so we're quite familiar with this.

Md. Ann Code, Tax Property Sect. 12-108 is the correct statute, but subsection (y) deals with predecessor entities. So if for example you & your husband had a LLP and were dissolving that and transferring the LLP's property to an LLC and the interests of both entities were identical, then (y) would be the section to use. It does not sound like you had any predecessor entity but instead that you & your husband simply held in your individual names. Thus it makes sense that the clerk is rejecting.

There are other code provisions in Tax Property 12-108 that may or may not apply, depending on the circumstances. You could either go through the 20+ different exemptions (only a few of these relate to entities), see if any others apply and if one does document each element of that exemption, or you might ask a real estate attorney to assist with the deed. An attorney cannot tell you what exemption might apply without knowing more about the specific circumstances.

While not legal advice I hope this helps answer your question. ... Read More