Recorder of deeds

Land Registration Authority officials testified before the Senate impeachment court on Thursday.

Davao City Register of Deeds four Cathy Florence Baldonado and Island Garden City of Samal Deputy Register of Deeds three Marco Pineda took the witness stand on the thirty-second day of the impeachment trial to present land records involving properties registered in Carpio's name.

The House prosecution presented the witnesses as part of its case under Article two of the impeachment complaint, which involves allegations concerning unexplained wealth.

During direct examination by House Prosecutor Representative Keith Flores, Baldonado testified on records showing that Carpio acquired a three hundred and seventy-nine square meter parcel of land in Juno Subdivision, Matina Crossing, Talomo, Davao City for P six million on July second, twenty twenty-four.

Pineda confirmed that listing only general area names or developer projects without exact location details could result in no match under the registry's automated search system.

Tulfo also asked whether SALN rules require public officials to identify specific barangay, streets, and lot numbers when declaring real property.

He further asked whether the Register of Deeds had records showing that public funds were used by Duterte or Carpio to acquire the properties and whether the office had documents detailing the property regime between the spouses.

Senator Judge Joel Villanueva asked Baldonado whether Duterte's name appearing in a property document indicated any ownership or financial interest in property registered to Carpio.

We've got Austin from our Sheriff's Office.

We've got Jessica from our Clerk and Register of Deeds, Riley from Parks, and a lot of other staff who contribute to the process personally.

directly, sometimes indirectly in one way or another.

So huge shout out to them.

And when they're not, that's when I start talking out.

And so what I had done as the Macomb County clerk, I am not only the clerk of the court, I'm also in charge of elections, and I'm also the register of deeds.

And it occurred to me with a software change that we had, I noticed that we were only getting 40% of the jurors showing up for jury trial.

And I said, well, why is that? And I started looking into it.

There was none of that.

Do, do, does it, do they even know what the Registry of Deeds is? Do they know what you can g- what you can find out at the Registry of Deeds? You know, the good thing is I don't have to worry about being beat on any of these stories 'cause I'm the, I'm the last guy left.

Me and Tim Dunn from the Herald.

That's it.

And like I said, this is just what we have from the LOC data set.

As I mentioned earlier, we've also extracted data sets from the books of survey and distribution, the transplantation lists, the 1663 Court of Claims records, and the early volumes of the Registry of Deeds, all of which provide us with more person-in-place entities.

And you can see that's the BSD, what we've taken from the BSD data set there with some examples of female entries there.

And you can see here for the Registry of Deeds what we've extracted there as well.

for women and again for the actual 1663 I'm excited about this one because you can actually marry the submissions and evidence which is a very long in some cases description of what's being sought through the Court of Claims in 1663 you can link it to an abstract and kind of build up a profile of the acreage that's being claimed.

It just interacts well, basically.

Okay, and what are we looking for on this? who is actually named on that deed.

And if you're in Shelby County, you can go to the Shelby County Register of Deeds and you can perform a search there to look at your deed.

You can go to the Shelby County Assessor website as well to look at your deed.

And if you have any questions, please give us a call at 901-535-9342.

Red flag.

The lawyer created my trust, so I assume the house is in it.

All of those are red flags because we're assuming, we're guessing, we're doing things based upon verbal understanding, which when we're talking about legally changing title, that has to be followed up with actually filing the documents in the Register of Deeds office.

Now, like I said, I do understand everybody, you know, they don't need attorneys, chat GPT documents.