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B-220736 1 (1986-04-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmgv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: OKOISION B-220736 MATTER OF: DIGEST: 1. THE COMPITOLLER GIENERIAL OP THU UNITEC STATUE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 DATE: April 10, 1986 John C. Bisbee The statutes and regulations author- izing transferred federal employees to be reimbursed for the expenses of the sale of their residence at their old duty station place no definitive limitations on the meaning of the term sale. Hence, a trans- ferred employee who conveyed the title of his old residence to a state agency in exchange for $10 and a release from his mortgage contract may be reimbursed for his allowable expenses in the sales transaction, even though it was not an ordinary open-market real estate sale. 2. The Federal Travel Regulations pro- vide that transferred federal employ- ees may be allowed reimbursement of legal expenses associated with the sale of their old residence, includ- ing the expenses of advisory and representational services not involv- ing litigation before the courts. A transferred employee may therefore be reimbursed for legal fees reasonably and necessarily paid to obtain repre- sentational services to negotiate his release from a mortgage contract in exchange for his conveyance of his ownership of his old residence in a situation that did not involve fore- closure proceedings or other type of litigation. The issue presented in this matter is whether a trans- ferred federal employee may be reimbursed for legal fees and expenses incurred in transferring ownership of his residence c~s \O~ FILE:

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