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TENGCO LAW PLLC

Residential Real Estate and Title Litigation Attorney

Protecting property rights through litigation involving foreclosure surplus funds, title disputes, interpleader actions, quiet title actions, deed disputes, easements, and related real estate matters throughout Virginia.

FOUNDER | TENGCO LAW PLLC

Leonard C. Tengco

Leonard C. Tengco is the founder of Tengco Law PLLC, a Virginia law firm focused on residential real estate and title litigation. His practice emphasizes the protection of property rights through litigation involving title disputes, foreclosure surplus funds, interpleader actions, quiet title actions, deed disputes, easements, and related real estate matters.

Mr. Tengco represents homeowners, heirs, creditors, purchasers, and other property owners in disputes involving ownership, title defects, competing claims to real property, and funds held by courts, foreclosure trustees, and other stakeholders.

His experience includes quiet title litigation, deed challenges, title defect resolution, foreclosure surplus fund claims, interpleader proceedings, lien release and lien priority disputes, easement litigation, boundary disputes, and other complex property-rights controversies throughout Virginia.

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REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

Title Litigation

Resolving ownership disputes, title defects, deed challenges, quiet title actions, chain-of-title issues, and other matters affecting marketable title and property ownership.

Foreclosure Surplus Funds & Interpleaders

Representing claimants, heirs, creditors, purchasers, and other interested parties in disputes involving surplus foreclosure proceeds, interpleader actions, and competing claims to funds.

Lien & Land Record Matters

Handling judgment lien releases, lien priority disputes, lis pendens issues, land-record errors, and other matters affecting title, marketability, and property rights.

Easement & Property Rights Litigation

Representing property owners in easement disputes, boundary controversies, encroachments, access disputes, driveway matters, and related property-rights litigation.

Experience Matters

REPORTED CASES

Willems v. Batcheller
109 Va. Cir. 319, 2022
Va. Cir. LEXIS 19
Fairfax County 2023

Landowners were ordered to take permanent measures to control bamboo in area where it was currently planted proximate to neighbors’ shed

Sayres v. Fuentes
2021 Va. Cir LEXIS 62
Loudoun County 2021

Sustaining demurrer to buyers’ counterclaim alleging real estate fraud in the inducement

Rustgi v. Webb
105 Va. Cir. 199, 2020 Va. Cir. LEXIS 81, 2020 WL 8831997
Fairfax County 2020

Denying claim by dominant tenement for prescriptive easement upon finding that predecessors to servient tenement gave permission to dock a boat on a lake seawall

Pfeiffer v. Efre
2018 Va. Cir. LEXIS 1521
Loudon County 2018

Agreed order of confirmation of sale

Pfeiffer v. Efre
2018 Va. Cir. LEXIS 1456
Loudon County 2018

Order granting plaintiff’s motion seeking funds held by Clerk of Court

O’Donovan v. Lake
109 Va. Cir. 253, 2022 Va. Cir. LEXIS 15
Fairfax County 2022

Each home was found to be responsible for an equal share of the costs required to maintain the driveway in issue, each home being severally and jointly responsible for the maintenance of the pipestem system and each part of the driveway constituting parts of a unified whole

Newcomer v. Wells Fargo Bank
N.A., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9482, 2019 WL 267873
E.D. Va. 2019

Granting mortgagor’s motion to remand to Richmond Circuit Court and holding that federal preemption defense under FCRA does not establish subject matter jurisdiction

NB Tysons, Inc. v. VA Henry Rose, LLC
106 Va. Cir. 86, 2020 Va. Cir. LEXIS 152, 2020 WL 10355918
Fairfax County 2020

Holding transfer of inventory between two separate LLCs owned by a single individual is not fraudulent per se

Mountjoy v. Slaey
110 Va. Cir. 359, 2022 Va. Cir. LEXIS 190
Fairfax County 2022

Co-owner’s obligation to pay for a property is not contingent upon their occupying the property, and neither can a co-owner make the other responsible for the costs of ownership simply by moving out of a property or by occupying a less expensive property

Malloy v. Westco Builders
2021 Va. Cir. LEXIS 454
Culpeper County 2021

Overruling demurrer to counterclaim for breach of new homes sales contract)
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Tengco Law PLLC represents clients throughout Virginia in matters involving title disputes, foreclosure surplus funds, interpleader actions, quiet title litigation, lien issues, easements, and related property-rights disputes.

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