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Foreclosure Appellate Courts Mortgage Lenders

Foreclosure is a legal process whereby a lender seeks to force the sale of a mortgaged property in order to recover the balance of a delinquent loan. Recently, the foreclosure process has been the subject of... more +
Foreclosure is a legal process whereby a lender seeks to force the sale of a mortgaged property in order to recover the balance of a delinquent loan. Recently, the foreclosure process has been the subject of greater legislative and judicial scrutiny after systemic abuses were uncovered during the widespread foreclosure crisis resulting from the Great Recession. less -
Hinshaw & Culbertson - Consumer Crossroads

Recent Cases Offer Instruction for Lenders on Avoiding FAPA Estoppel in Foreclosure or Quiet Title Actions in New York

Under the Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act (“FAPA”), effective as of December 30, 2022, a lender in a New York foreclosure or quiet title action can be estopped from asserting that the subject mortgage loan was not validly...more

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Portions of New York’s FAPA Survive Constitutional Challenges

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Over the last four months, New York’s Appellate Division has finally begun to address constitutional challenges to the state’s Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act (FAPA), an act that became effective in December 2022 and...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Navigating Desbrunes: Implications and the Case for Overturning

In a less-than-thousand-word opinion, the Fourth District Court of Appeal of Florida put foreclosure cases across Florida in jeopardy. Namely, in all foreclosure cases in which a borrower is deceased, unless the legal...more

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