The Fifth Amendment sets the floor, but everything that decides your outcome, including deadlines, hearings, jury rights, fee recovery, and business damages, is state law. Choose your state.
Two owners with identical properties and identical takings can walk away with very different outcomes purely because of the state line between them. Some states send compensation disputes to special commissioners first; others go straight to a jury. Some states pay your attorney fees when you beat the final offer; most do not. A handful compensate business damages; the majority compensate only the real estate.
Each guide covers the same six questions for its state: who may condemn, how the process runs, what compensation includes, the deadlines that can cost you rights, whether fee recovery exists, and how to fight a taking there.
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