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Recorder’s office encourages property fraud alerts amid deed-impersonation scams

5486750 · July 28, 2025
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Summary

A Marion County recorder guest explained title basics and advised property owners—especially owners of vacant, rental or vacation properties and those caring for older relatives—to sign up for free county property-fraud-alert services and consider title insurance when inheriting property.

Elizabeth Berg, a real estate attorney, discussed property title, deed fraud and protective steps during a Marion County recorder’s office media segment. She said title records in the recorder’s office show ownership history, mortgages and judgment liens and that Indiana law recognizes the concept of marketable title. Berg described a form of deed…

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