While most of the public attention nowadays is focused squarely upon property owners losing their homes through foreclosure proceedings, property owners may also forfeit their homes if they are involved in drug-related crimes.
Under the Controlled Substances Forfeiture Act (CSFA), property used to facilitate any violation of the Controlled Substance, Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act may lawfully be seized. Included under the forfeiture act is real property. The CSFA permits seizure of real property "used or intended to be used to facilitate any violation of the Controlled Substance, Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act, including structures or other improvements thereon, and including any right, title and interest in the whole or any lot or tract of land and any appurtenances or improvements, which is used, or intended to be used, in any manner or part, to commit, or to facilitate the commission of, a violation of the Controlled Substance, Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act, and things growing on, affixed to and found in the land."
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