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The Law Office of Stephen Nault

Practice Area

HOA Dispute Attorney in Tennessee

An HOA dispute is rarely really about the money — it is about who gets to decide. Whether the board is enforcing a covenant against you or you are the board trying to enforce one, the answer usually sits in the CC&Rs and in whether the association followed its own procedure. I take both sides.

This page covers a focused service. For the broader editorial practice area, see Real Estate Disputes in Tennessee.

The governing documents, and whether the board followed them

These fights turn on the recorded CC&Rs, the bylaws, and the board's procedures, plus any Tennessee planned-community or condominium statute that applies. The recurring matters are covenant violations alleged against a homeowner, assessment delinquency and lien proceedings, architectural- and design-review denials, fining procedures, and selective-enforcement defenses — the argument that a board cannot enforce against one owner a rule it ignores for others. Very often the determinative issue is not the rule itself but whether the association complied with its own process in applying it.

Pushing back without burning down the neighborhood

There is a practical layer that pure litigation misses: these are your neighbors, and the board has to keep running the community afterward. So the goal is to be firm on the governing documents and the procedure without turning a covenant disagreement into a years-long feud. Reading the CC&Rs and bylaws early — on a notice of violation, before paying a contested assessment, or before the board moves to enforce — frames the response and preserves the procedural arguments that usually decide it.

Service area

Statewide advice; trial representation in Sumner, Wilson, Robertson, Trousdale, Williamson, and Davidson Counties.

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