Statewide Tax Sale and Quiet Title Litigation Practice Across Louisiana
Wesley M. Plaisance is a Partner in the New Orleans office of Breazeale Sachse. where he heads the Tax Sale and Quiet Title Litigation Group and practices other commercial litigation with a focus on real estate related litigation. Wesley M. Plaisance regularly handles tax sale litigation across Louisiana including without limitation in the following parishes: Orleans, East Baton Rouge, St. Tammany (including Covington, Mandeville and Slidell), Jefferson, Lafayette, Iberia, Caddo, Livingston, Plaquemines and Lafourche. Mr. Plaisance represents tax sale purchasers in suits to confirm tax sale title(s) and ownership with and/or without cancellation of mortgages and other encumbrances, in settlement of tax sale litigation matters and in partition proceedings commenced after a tax sale purchaser confirms only a fractional ownership interest.
Mr. Plaisance has extensive experience in representing tax debtors, landowners, mortgage holders including banks and other interested parties in actions to annul and/or nullify tax sales and adjudication sales. Mr. Plaisance has successfully litigated complex commercial litigation matters arising out of large investment funds created to purchase tax sale certificates and/or tax sale deeds in Louisiana, Georgia, Indiana and Florida.
Numerous Tax Sale Transactions Including With Title Insurance
Mr. Plaisance is a resource for tax sale purchasers to buy or sell interest under tax sale certificates/deeds to other investors and has assisted his clients in the acquisition and/or sale of numerous tax sale deeds/certificates in Louisiana. Mr. Plaisance assists his clients in navigating the sale of immovable property with title insurance after confirmation of the tax sale certificates/deeds.
Real Estate and Succession Litigation
Mr. Plaisance has also represented clients in a wide variety of business related disputes including real estate ownership/title litigation, co-ownership litigation, partition proceedings, acquisitive prescription litigation including 3 year acquisitive prescription over blighted property under Louisiana Revised Statute § 9:5633, purchase agreement and option litigation, contract and lease litigation, unfair competition and trade practices, summary proceedings commenced by rule for alleged nonpayment of taxes and other disputes, actions for a Writ of Mandamus and construction disputes. Mr. Plaisance also has a large succession practice and regularly handles succession administration and succession litigation matters for his clients, especially involving the sale of real estate and creditor's rights.
Additionally, Mr. Plaisance has also represented clients in business transactions including but not limited to preparation of operating agreements in connection with the formation of companies and in preparation of contracts such as agreements for the purchase and sale of assets, leases, joint venture agreements, device placement agreements, revenue sharing agreements, employment agreements and non-solicitation and non-competition agreements.
Mr. Plaisance graduated magna cum laude from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law where he was a member of the Loyola Law Review. In addition, Mr. Plaisance served as an extern for the Honorable Kurt D. Engelhardt in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Prior to law school, Mr. Plaisance earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Engineering from Louisiana State University, cum laude.
