It’s up to her lawyers to vet the title through a title search.
This is a pox upon hundreds of thousands of homes making them unsalable because the title is in legal la-la land. If Sarah Palin as a would-be purchaser of that house got bitten by this problem, she committed no crime, though she may end up out the money she put down on it.
The “deep” title search shouldn’t come until after she declares.
This is an enormous club to hold over ALL of the “combine”. Every person in America can understand the sheer agony of not knowing whether one’s own house is their own.