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Mortgage Servicer Foreclosure Fraud

by Kurt O'Keefe, Attorney at Law

image credit:  dreamstime   Countrywide, number one offender, writer of the most sub-prime mortgages (the list goes on) admits bilking homeowners, in foreclosure, and even including those who had successfully completed Chapter 13 cases, usually filed to avoid foreclosure, out of tens of millions of dollars. The Department of Justice, through the United States Trustee’s [...]

A second mortgage lien in the wife’s individual Chapter 13 bankruptcy case has been stripped by a Court, even though the mortgage and lien were in the name of the wife and her non-filing husband. Eastern District of Michigan bankruptcy Judge Rhodes wrote the opinion, finding the debts totally unsecured. In each case, it was [...]

Mortgage Not Recorded? No Problem.

by Eugene S. Melchionne, Connecticut Bankruptcy Lawyer

The concept of recording mortgage documents in a central place should be pretty obvious.  By recording the mortgage, the world at large will known if there is lien against a certain piece of property.  This guards against the risk that the borrower might sell the property without paying the mortgage and it guards against other [...]