Ignorance is not Bliss:


Why Are Community Association Volunteer Board Members Sued?


By Joel W. Meskin, Esq., CIRMS, CCAL Fellow, MLIS


Volunteer board members are often baffled and incredulous when someone challenges or complains about a decision that they have made, a rule that they have changed, or a special assessment that they have issued. I have touched in one way or another between five and six thousand claims and/or lawsuits against community Associations and their volunteer board members. As I travel around the country, people ask me what I have been able to distill from all these claims. Without skipping a beat, I respond by telling them that “ignorance is not bliss”!


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