A New World for Mortgage Banking – What You Need to Know About the CFPB’s Final Mortgage Servicing Rules
With the recent developments at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), many mortgage lenders have been left wondering about the extent to which the CFPB will enforce federal laws governing the mortgage lending...more
Real Property Update - Due Process: Trial court violated developer’s due process rights by considering and ruling upon developer’s motion to quash service of process, which was not set for hearing, despite developer’s...more
On December 7, 2018, a federal court in Maryland issued an important ruling in a Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (“RESPA”) case (“Baehr”), granting a defense motion for summary judgment. The court dismissed the action...more
Effective as of April 19, 2018, successors in interest to property secured by mortgage loans that are covered by the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (“RESPA”) and Truth In Lending Act (“TILA”) now have certain rights...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) amendments to Regulation X, which implements the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), place new and onerous requirements on mortgage servicers to correct errors and...more
Originally published in The Washington Legal Foundation’s The Legal Pulse, on January 31, 2013. In the last days of the 2011 Term, fresh off its decisions in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act cases, the...more