Direct Title & Closing Agency has been conducting title searches for Attorneys since 1979.
We perform Title Searches and provide Title Insurance Commitments for real estate transactions anywhere in New Jersey.

Protection
We are underwriting agents for two of the largest and most prestigious Title insurance companies in the United States - First American Title Insurance Company and Old Republic Title Insurance Company.  We are also underwriters for New Jersey Title Insurance Company. Your title will be secure, protected and insured.

We Attend to the Details
Our Team of Experts researches and verifies every relevant detail of your client’s title. We make certain that your client’s title will be clear and insurable, and free of any liens.
Our title search is thorough research of all the government records concerning the title to the property, in order to determine exactly who owns the property, whether the title is "free and clear," and to identify any liens against the title. The title search is performed in the county land records, in the federal, state and county court records, and in the municipal tax, assessment, and utility account records.

What Does Title Insurance do for your Client?
A title insurance policy is your clients’ best protection against potential title defects, which can remain hidden despite the most thorough search of public records and the most careful closing. You don't want problems from prior ownerships to interfere with your clients’ rights to their property. And you don't want your clients to be forced to defend their property rights in court. For a one-time premium we agree to insure your clients against losses due to defects existing prior to the issue date of their policy, up to the policy amount. And, should it be needed, the policy also provides for the cost of legal defense of your clients' title. The specifics will be spelled out in your client’s policy. The title insurance policy will protect your clients - for as long as they own their property - against such potential title defects as:

1. Forged deeds, mortgages, satisfactions or releases.
2. Deed by person who is insane or mentally incompetent.
3. Deed by minor (may be disavowed).
4. Deed from corporation, unauthorized under corporate bylaws or given under falsified corporate resolution.
5. Deed from partnership, unauthorized under partnership agreement.
6. Deed from purported trustee, unauthorized under trust agreement.
7. Deed to or from a "corporation" before incorporation, or after loss of corporate charter.
8. Deed from a legal non-entity (styled, for example, as a church, charity or club).
9. Deed by person in a foreign country, vulnerable to challenge as incompetent, unauthorized or defective under foreign laws.
10. Claims resulting from use of "alias" or fictitious names by a predecessor in title.
11. Deed challenged as being given under fraud, undue influence or duress.
12. Deed following non-judicial foreclosure, where required procedure was not followed.
13. Deed affecting land in judicial proceedings (bankruptcy, receivership, probate, conservatorship, dissolution of marriage), unauthorized by court.
14. Deed following judicial proceedings, subject to appeal or further court order.
15. Deed following judicial proceedings, where all necessary parties were not joined.
16. Lack of jurisdiction over persons or property in judicial proceedings.
17. Deed signed by mistake (grantor did not know what was assigned).
18. Deed executed under falsified power of attorney.
19. Deed executed under expired power or attorney (death, disability or insanity of principal).
20. Deed apparently valid, but actually delivered after death of grantor or grantee, or without consent of grantor.
21. Deed affecting property purported to be separate property of grantor, which is in fact community or jointly-owned property.
22. Undisclosed divorce of one who conveys as sole heir of a deceased former spouse.
23. Deed affecting property of deceased person, not joining all heirs.
24. Deed following administration of estate of missing person, who later re-appears.
25. Conveyance by heir or survivor of a joint estate, who murdered the decedent.
26. Conveyances and proceedings affecting rights of service-member protected by the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act.
27. Conveyance void as in violation of public policy (payment of gambling debt, payment for contract to commit crime, or conveyance made in restraint of trade).
28. Deed to land including "wetlands" subject to public trust (vesting title in government to protect public interest in navigation, commerce, fishing and recreation).
29. Deed from government entity, vulnerable to challenge as unauthorized or unlawful.
30. Ineffective release of prior satisfied mortgage due to acquisition of note by bona fide purchaser (without notice of satisfaction).
31. Ineffective release of prior satisfied mortgage due to bankruptcy of creditor prior to recording of release (avoiding powers in bankruptcy).
32. Ineffective release of prior mortgage of lien, as fraudulently obtained by predecessor in title.
33. Disputed release of prior mortgage or lien, as given under mistake or misunderstanding.
34. Ineffective subordination agreement, causing junior interest to be reinstated to priority.
35. Deed recorded, but not properly indexed so as to be locatable in the land records.
36. Undisclosed but recorded federal or state tax lien.
37. Undisclosed but recorded judgment or spousal/child support lien.
38. Undisclosed but recorded prior mortgage.
39. Undisclosed but recorded notice of pending lawsuit affecting land.
40. Undisclosed but recorded environmental lien.
41. Undisclosed but recorded option, or right of first refusal, to purchase property.
42. Undisclosed but recorded covenants or restrictions, with (or without) rights of reverter.
43. Undisclosed but recorded easements (for access, utilities, drainage, airspace, views) benefiting neighboring land.
44. Undisclosed but recorded boundary, party wall or setback agreements.
45. Errors in tax records (mailing tax bill to wrong party resulting in tax sale, or crediting payment to wrong property).
46. Erroneous release of tax or assessment liens, which are later reinstated to the tax rolls.
47. Erroneous reports furnished by tax officials (not binding local government).
48. Special assessments which become liens upon passage of a law or ordinance, but before recorded notice or commencement of improvements for which assessment is made.
49. Adverse claim of vendor's lien.
50. Adverse claim of equitable lien.
51. Ambiguous covenants or restrictions in ancient documents.
52. Misinterpretation of wills, deeds and other instruments.
53. Discovery of will of supposed intestate individual, after probate.
54. Discovery of later will after probate of first will.
55. Erroneous or inadequate legal descriptions.
56. Deed to land without a right of access to a public street or road.
57. Deed to land with legal access subject to undisclosed but recorded conditions or restrictions.
58. Right of access wiped out by foreclosure on neighboring land.
59. Patent defects in recorded instruments (for example, failure to attach notarial acknowledgment or a legal description).
60. Defective acknowledgment due to lack of authority of notary (acknowledgment taken before commission or after expiration of commission).
61. Forged notarization or witness acknowledgment.
62. Deed not properly recorded (wrong county, missing pages or other contents, or without required payment).
63. Deed from grantor who is claimed to have acquired title through fraud upon creditors of a prior owner.