Lenders are refreshing their mortgage loan documents with provisions based on the “lessons learned” during the recent (continuing?) economic experience. One change is to add a service of process provision.
The change is based on this basic lesson learned: when the tough times hit, borrowers and guarantors sometimes are hard to find.
A few simply disappear behind gated communities, on yachts, or regularly move from one remote estate to another – maybe intending to make it difficult for the lender to give them required legal notices of litigation or foreclosure (referred to as “service of process“).
Hide and Seek – in style
Or maybe this simply is a desire to get away from the stress of it all – leave the train wreck (1913 State Fair Trains Collide) for the lawyers. Or perhaps just a final surrender to the wanderlust whisper.
In response, many lenders now bake into their loan documents a provision where the borrower (and the guarantor) agree that legal notices (or service of process) will be given to a designated person (or company), who will accept those notices.
So far, I haven’t had a borrower object to the provision.
If you’re tired of spending money and wasting time in an adult version of hide and seek (or simply not wanting someone to do what you can’t do), then consider adding a service of process provision in your standard forms of documents for:
