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Statute of Limitations refers to a statute that sets the time period during which a legal claim can be brought. Most statute of limitations laws require individuals to sue at some point during a set period... more +
Statute of Limitations refers to a statute that sets the time period during which a legal claim can be brought. Most statute of limitations laws require individuals to sue at some point during a set period usually commencing from the date of the wrong or injury or the discovery of the wrong or injury. Except for under a limited set of circumstances, if an individual does not file a suit within the specified time period, the law bars them from ever suing on that claim. less -
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Recent Cases Offer Instruction for Lenders on Avoiding FAPA Estoppel in Foreclosure or Quiet Title Actions in New York

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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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New York’s Highest Court Agrees To Hear Constitutional Challenge to Estoppel Provision of FAPA

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On May 20, 2025, the New York Court of Appeals agreed to hear constitutional challenges to one aspect of New York’s Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act (FAPA). ...more

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Firmly Fixated With Allonges - REF News & Views

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In a recent decision by the Supreme Court of the State of New York in Kings County (the Court), HSBC Bank USA, N.A. (the Plaintiff) initiated a mortgage foreclosure action against Jack and Sabah Srugo (collectively, the...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

All Along the Watchtower: Awaiting the Ruling on FAPA’s Retroactive Reach

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In a recent case, E. Fork Funding LLC v. U.S. Bank, Nat’l Ass’n, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has certified a novel question for the New York Court of Appeals ("NYCOA"): Whether Sections 4 and/or...more

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New York Courts Split on the Constitutionality of the Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act

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In the six months since New York’s governor signed the Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act, L. 2022, ch. 821 (eff. Dec. 30, 2022) (FAPA), a split has emerged about whether the law applies retroactively....more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Arizona Court of Appeals Narrows Statute of Limitations Application

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The Arizona Court of Appeals recently clarified how the state’s debt collection statute of limitations applies to debt created by a land sale contract. Arizona has a six-year statute of limitations to enforce installment...more

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NY restricts lenders’ ability to reset statute of limitations on foreclosures

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In December, the New York governor signed A 7737-B, the “Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act,” which amends the rights of parties in foreclosure actions....more

Holland & Knight LLP

New York Statute of Limitations on Mortgage Debt Governed by GOL Section 17-105, Not 17-101

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A recurring issue in New York mortgage lending is under what circumstances the state's six-year statute of limitations on mortgage debts is extended or revived. The New York Court of Appeals ruled recently that this issue is...more

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NY Court of Appeals on the Foreclosure Statute of Limitations

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The New York Court of Appeals’ decision last week, Freedom Mortgage Corp v. Engel, contains two “reliable and objective rules permitting consistent application of the statute of limitations.” What are those rules?  ...more

Blank Rome LLP

New York’s Highest Court Makes Key Rulings in Favor of Lenders Clarifying What Accelerates and De-Accelerates a Mortgage Debt for...

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The New York Court of Appeals’ decision set bright-line rules that a noteholder’s voluntary discontinuance of a foreclosure action, in itself, revokes the acceleration of a mortgage debt, and a default letter stating that the...more

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Second Circuit Finds HUD Assignees Immune from State Statute of Limitations Claims

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The mortgage foreclosure world continues to experience change at a moment's notice. Lenders continue to defend against borrower actions seeking to discharge their mortgages as time-barred, which in turn has led to the...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

New York Court of Appeals Appears Ready to Decide Whether Discontinuance of a ‎Foreclosure Action Can De-Accelerate a Loan and...

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While New York courts continue to hear cases involving defaulted loan obligations stemming from the 2008 financial crisis, on January 5, 2021, the New York Court of Appeals heard arguments on four related cases involving New...more

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Maryland Court of Special Appeals Confirms That Foreclosure Actions Are Not Subject to Statute of Limitations

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, a patchwork quilt of statutes, regulations, executive orders, and court orders have imposed on again, off again, restrictions on the filing and prosecution of foreclosure cases. Few of these...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Am I a party entitled to enforce a promissory note?

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Shareholder Derivative Lawsuit Aungst v. Light, 9th Dist. Summit No. 29349, 2020-Ohio-3347 In this appeal, the Ninth Appellate District affirmed the trial court’s decision, finding that when a shareholder’s derivative...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

FHFA and GSEs Issue Guidance on Assistance to Renters and Borrowers Impacted by COVID-19

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On March 24, 2020, in response to the growing anticipation that renters in multifamily properties are being negatively impacted by the implications of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (“COVID-19”), the Federal Housing Finance...more

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Foreclosure Holds Impacting Statute Of Limitations

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The COVID-19 crisis has led to foreclosure moratoriums at the regulatory, executive, and judicial level. Servicers should consider that compliance with these, regardless of level, may not protect them from later challenges to...more

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NY Appellate Court Holds Default Letter Stating Lender “Will Proceed to Automatically Accelerate” Did Not Accelerate the Debt and...

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In U.S. Bank N.A. v. Gordon, 176 A.D.3d 1006 (2d Dept. 2019), the New York Appellate Division, Second Department, held that a notice of default stating that if the loan was not made current, the lender “will automatically...more

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Bankruptcy Court Confirms Enforceability of Mortgage Notwithstanding Expiration of Statute of Limitations for Underlying...

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In In re Fortin, 598 B.R. 689 (Bankr. D. Mass. 2019), the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts considered whether a lender may enforce a mortgage despite the unenforceability of the underlying...more

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Borrower’s Death Does NOT Automatically Accelerate a Reverse Mortgage

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Does the death of the borrower automatically accelerate a reverse mortgage? In a decision that is good news for reverse mortgage lenders, a recent New York appellate court answered no....more

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Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending April 26, 2019

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Real Property Update - • Foreclosure / Reverse Mortgage / Condition Precedent: bank failed to establish that the subject property was not the principal residence of surviving co-borrower under its reverse mortgage, a...more

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NY Second Department Appellate Division Finds That Mortgage Loan Is Accelerated For Purposes Of The Statute Of Limitations...

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In Bank of New York Mellon v. Dieudonne, a highly anticipated decision for the mortgage servicing and lending industry, the New York Appellate Division’s Second Department held that a residential mortgage accelerates upon the...more

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New York Appellate Court Rejects Usage of a Mortgage’s Reinstatement Provision as a Defense to the Expiration of the Statute of...

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New York’s Second Department, in rejecting the MacPherson line of cases, holds mortgage’s reinstatement provision is not a condition precedent to accelerating the debt and therefore does not prevent a lender from exercising...more

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In a Case of First Impression, the Ninth Circuit Begins to Unravel the Mystery of When a Claim to Enforce a Rescission Request...

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An action by a Washington state borrower to enforce a request for rescission of a loan under the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) is analogous to an action to enforce a contract and must be brought within the Washington state...more

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Chris Lazarini Examines Accrual of Indemnitor Liability

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Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Chris Lazarini examined a case in which a mortgage company sued a bank under the indemnity clause of the parties loan purchase agreement. The bank sought dismissal on statute of limitations...more

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Rescission Requests under TILA

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In a case of first impression, the Ninth Circuit begins to unravel the mystery of when a claim to enforce a rescission request under the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) may be time-barred. An action by a Washington state borrower...more

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