Topic
Foreclosures
864 published works
Texas Bankruptcy Blog
How Bankruptcy Can Help if You are Behind on Your Mortgage Payments
By Bryan Fears
If you happen to fall behind on your mortgage payments, then filing Bankruptcy may provide an option to help you catch up and get current on your mortgage. Specifically, a…
Texas Bankruptcy Blog
Delay on Foreclosure due to Chapter 13 Bankruptcy
By Bryan Fears
Foreclosure on homes often happens when lenders want to retrieve the remaining balance of a loan from the homeowner who has stopped making payments. Normally, the lenders will not begin…
Virgin Islands Law Blog
Kennedy Funding Financial Pulls Out of US Virgin Islands Market
By Tom Bolt
Due to frustrations with the foreclosure process, Kennedy Funding Financial, a prominent international lender with a sizable footprint in the Caribbean region, has decided to stop lending in the U.S.…
PropertyProf Blog
Fox on The Future of Foreclosure Law
Judith Fox (Notre Dame) has posted The Future of Foreclosure Law in the Wake of the Great Housing Crisis of 2007-2014 (Washburn Law Journal) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:As 2014…
The Legal Scoop on Southwest Florida Real Estate
What to Expect Following the Sunset of the Protecting Tenants at Foreclose Act
On May 20, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009 (the “Act”). The Act was created during the height of the foreclosure crisis…
Ohio Appellate Insights
What’s On Their Minds: Standing in Foreclosure Cases, Again. Note and Mortgage or Note or Mortgage at Time of Filing? SRMOF 2009-1 Trust v. Shari Lewis et al.
Update: on April 22, 2015, the court unanimously dismissed this case as improvidently certified. “Aren’t there rights of a mortgage holder to enforce a foreclosure independent of the note? We…
Texas Bankruptcy Blog
Statute of Limitations and Foreclosure
By Bryan Fears
Every state has a statute of limitations for filing a foreclosure action. A statute of limitations is a state law that tells the lender that a foreclosure must be filed…
inversecondemnation.com
DC Circuit: No Supplemental Federal Jurisdiction Because “Elvis Had Left The Building” Upon Failure Of Takings Claim
Here's one that we've had in our "to read" stack for a while, but put off since it didn't look all that interesting. But after finally reading it recently, there's…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Judges, Lawyers and Bank Fraud
By margaretdrew
Recently, the New York Times reported on "Two Judges Who Get It About Banks". Decisions by the two judges addressed unscrupulous and illegal bank practices, in these cases by Wells Fargo, that led to wrongful…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Oral Argument Preview: Standing in Foreclosure Cases, Again. Note and Mortgage or Note or Mortgage at Time of Filing? SRMOF 2009-1 Trust v. Shari Lewis et al.
Update: On April 22, 2015, this case was unanimously dismissed as improvidently certified. Read the analysis of the oral argument here. On February 25, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio…