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Foreclosure is a legal process whereby a lender seeks to force the sale of a mortgaged property in order to recover the balance of a delinquent loan. Recently, the foreclosure process has been the subject of greater legislative and judicial scrutiny after systemic abuses were uncovered during the widespread foreclosure crisis resulting from the Great Recession. less -

Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Weeks Ending November 17 & 24, 2017

Carlton Fields on 12/1/2017

REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - Receiver/Barton Doctrine: individual could not bring negligence action against discharged receiver of commercial property until individual first obtained leave to do so from the court that appointed...more

Real Property & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending September 1, 2017

Carlton Fields on 9/6/2017

REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - Foreclosure / Statute of Limitations: trial court improperly found that, because payments due under a note and mortgage were accelerated in a prior 2009 action, the second action filed over five...more

Real Property & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending August 18 & 25, 2017

Carlton Fields on 9/1/2017

Foreclosure: general reservation of jurisdiction in a foreclosure judgment is very limited, and certainly does not give trial court jurisdiction to eliminate a lien more than three years after Final Judgment of Foreclosure...more

Real Property & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending April 14 & 21, 2017

Carlton Fields on 4/25/2017

REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - Foreclosure/Attorneys’ Fees: mortgage foreclosure plaintiffs seeking attorney’s fees must support their claim with competent, substantial evidence of the number of hours worked and evidence that...more

Real Property & Title Insurance Update: Weeks Ending December 2 & 9, 2016

Carlton Fields on 12/15/2016

REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - Deficiency/Subject Matter Jurisdiction: approving the 3d DCA’s opinion that an assignee of a foreclosure judgment can maintain a separate action for deficiency under Florida Statutes, Section...more

Real Property & Title Insurance Update: Weeks Ending November 4 & 11, 2016

Carlton Fields on 11/18/2016

REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - Foreclosure/Constitutional Challenge: record title owner’s argument that Florida Statutes section 702.035, governing “Legal notice concerning foreclosure proceedings,” is an unconstitutional...more

Real Property & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending October 14, 2016

Carlton Fields on 10/19/2016

REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - Foreclosure/Standing: foreclosing bank did not establish standing where it failed to submit evidence it was in possession of original note with blank endorsement at time of filing of foreclosure...more

Real Property & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending August 19 & 26, 2016

Carlton Fields on 8/31/2016

Real Property Update: - Lis Pendens/Subsequent Liens: lis pendens statute only serves to discharge liens that exist or arise prior to entry of foreclosure judgment but does not affect liens that arise after entry of...more

Real Property & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending July 15, 2016

Carlton Fields on 7/21/2016

REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - Foreclosure/Unclean Hands: defense of unclean hands insufficient where borrower alleges bank’s loan officer inflated borrower’s income and assets to qualify for loan where borrower signed off on...more

Real Property & Title Insurance Update: Weeks Ending June 24 & July 1, 2016

Carlton Fields on 7/11/2016

REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - Foreclosure/Leave to Amend: borrower should have been granted leave to amend to assert affirmative defenses pursuant to motion filed 13 days before trial because there was no prejudice, the...more

Real Property & Title Insurance Update: Weeks Ending May 29 & June 3, 2016

Carlton Fields on 6/8/2016

REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - Foreclosure/Bankruptcy Stay: because borrower’s notice of appeal was filed during pendency of bankruptcy stay it was a nullity, and appellate court lacked jurisdiction to consider appeal –Hewett v....more

Real Property & Title Insurance Update: Weeks Ending May 13 & May 20, 2016

Carlton Fields on 5/26/2016

REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - Contracts/Personal Liability: official title of “President” underneath signor’s signature on contract did not shield individual from personal liability because contract language reflected...more

Real Property & Title Insurance Update: Weeks Ending April 29 & May 6, 2016

Carlton Fields on 5/11/2016

REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - Foreclosure/Requests for Admission: trial court erred by involuntarily dismissing foreclosure action based solely on lender’s failure to respond to requests for admission because lender’s...more

Real Property, Financial Services & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending October 23, 2015

Carlton Fields on 10/27/2015

REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - Foreclosure/Documentary Stamp Tax: deferred interest on a “pick-a-payment” mortgage did not amount to future advance, which would have required payment of documentary stamp tax - Steinberg v. Wells...more

Real Property, Financial Services & Title Insurance Update: Weeks Ending August 21 & 28 , 2015

Carlton Fields on 9/3/2015

Foreclosure/Statute of Limitations: statute of limitations did not bar foreclosure action even though filed more than five years after breach and acceleration of note upon which previous foreclosure action that had been...more

Dodd-Frank News: June 2015: Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act Update

Burr & Forman on 6/26/2015

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was enacted as a measure to promote financial stability and protection for consumers through increased regulation of nearly every aspect of the consumer finance...more

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