Indymac Bank F.S.B. v. Yano-Horoski
Mortgage and Note voided, cancelled and nullified by the court because lender had acted in bad faith, refusing to negotiate a reasonable loan modification.
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Indymac Bank F.S.B. v Yano-Horoski
2009 NY Slip Op 52333(U)
Decided on November 19, 2009
Supreme Court, Suffolk County
Spinner, J.
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is [...]
Fair Game – If the Lender Can’t Find the Mortgage
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
Published: October 24, 2009
FOR decades, when troubled homeowners and banks battled over delinquent mortgages, it wasn’t a contest. Homes went into foreclosure, and lenders took control of the property.
On top of that, courts rubber-stamped the array of foreclosure charges that lenders heaped onto borrowers and took banks at their word when the lenders [...]
IN RE DARRELL ROYCE SHERIDAN, SHERRY ANN SHERIDAN, Chapter 7 Debtors.
Sheridan_decision
In this Chapter 7 case, the trustee, Ford Elsaesser (“Trustee”), objects to amotion under § 362(d) for relief from the § 362(a) automatic stay.1 Motions under § 362(d) are common in bankruptcy cases.2 Most stay relief requests proceed promptly to entry of an order, after proper notice, without any objection.
However, changes in mortgage practices over [...]
New law denies homeowners access to legal representation
California has a new law on the books that bans collection of advance fees from firms that provide loan modification services to people struggling to avoid foreclosure.
Other real estate related bills signed into law this month by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger aim to crack down on abusive lending practices by mortgage brokers; provide more safeguards for [...]
Memoranda in Support of Motions to Dismiss Foreclosure
2.3 Memoranda in Support of Motions to Dismiss Foreclosure
2.3.1 Memorandum in Support of Motion to Dismiss, Case #4
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT, FOURTH
JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR
DUVAL COUNTY, FLORIDA.
CASE NO.:
DIVISION:
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS, INC.,
Plaintiff,
vs.
[DEFENDANT], DECEASED, ET AL
Defendants.
SEPARATE DEFENDANT, [SEPARATE DEFENDANT]’S MOTION TO CANCEL SUMMARY JUDGMENT HEARING, DISMISS PLAINTIFF’S COMPLAINT, OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE, MOTION FOR [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )LANDMARK NATIONAL BANK V. KESLER
No. 98,489
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF KANSAS
LANDMARK NATIONAL BANK,
Plaintiff/Appellee,
v.
BOYD A. KESLER,
Appellee/Cross-Appellant,
MILLENNIA MORTGAGE CORP.,
Defendant,
MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION
SYSTEMS, INC. AND SOVEREIGN BANK,
Appellants/Cross-Appellees,
and
DENNIS BRISTOW AND TONY WOYDZIAK,
Intervenors/Appellees.
SYLLABUS BY THE COURT
1. A party is not contingently necessary in a mortgage-foreclosure lawsuit when that party is called the mortgagee in a [...]
Minnesota Supreme Court Upholds MERS
St. Paul, Minn. — The Minnesota Supreme Court today ruled against five Hennepin County homeowners who said an electronic mortgage registration system made it virtually impossible to defend themselves against home foreclosures.
The system, called Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, or MERS, is a registry involved in 40 percent of all foreclosures in the Twin Cities.
MERS was [...]
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY v. ROLANDO CAMPBELL, et al.
Deutsche Bank has some explaining to do. Why would they buy a nonperforming loan from MERS 142 days after a payment default?
The instant foreclosure application states that defendant CAMPBELL defaulted on his mortgage payments by failing to make his April 1, 2007 and subsequent monthly loan payments. Yet, on August 20, 2007, 142 days subsequent [...]
Washington Mutual v. Raymond & Rhonda Payne
WASHINGTON MUTUAL BANK, NA, Plaintiff,
v.
RAYMOND R. PAYNE AND RHONDA K. PAYNE, Defendants.
Supreme Court, Suffolk County.
Decided June 15, 2009.
Shapiro & DiCaro, LLP, Rochester, NY, Attys. for Plaintiff.
David Gevanter, ESQ., Hicksville, NY, Attys. for Defendants.
THOMAS F. WHELAN, J.
ORDERED that this motion (#004) by defendant, Raymond R. Payne, for an order staying the public sale of the subject [...]
States gain more power over banks
Reporting from Washington — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states could enforce some of their consumer protection laws against national banks, a move that could lead to tougher oversight than federal regulators have provided in recent years.
The 5-4 decision in a case involving attempts by New York’s attorney general to enforce fair-lending laws was [...]
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