In a monumental and overdue shift in foreclosure jurisprudence, in Finch v. U.S. Bank, N.A., 2024 ME 2,---A.3d---, the Law Court overruled its holding in Pushard v. Bank of America, N.A., 2017 ME 230, 175 A.3d 103, which...more
Many judges in Miami-Dade County and elsewhere held the view that “strict” compliance was the standard to determine if a notice of default complied with the provisions of a paragraph 22 of a mortgage. To this day, no...more
The Florida Second District Court of Appeal recently issued a long-awaited opinion in Green Tree Servicing v. Milam. Until this decision, the district courts in Florida had not spoken directly on the issue of whether strict...more
On July 29, 2015, Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal held that substantial compliance, rather than strict compliance, is the legal standard for evaluating a foreclosing plaintiff’s compliance with contractual...more