Mortgage Foreclosure

Summary: Where the mortgage agreement stipulates that a certain a State’s law shall govern certain provisions under the contract, counterclaims brought under such State's laws are...

Summary: In order to set aside a default judgment, the movant must provide evidence of a meritorious defense and that the relief sought is necessary and just.

 

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Summary: Mortgage liens recorded before land contracts are superior between the two.

 

Lunsford v. Deutsche Bank Trust Co. Americas as Tr., 996 N.E.2d 815 (...

Summary: A failure to pay the same amount and defaulting at the same time is not enough by itself to establish a prima facie case that two parties are similarly situated.

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Summary: Tenancy by the entirety ownership of the beneficial interest in a land trust only precludes the sale of joint owners' interest to satisfy a money judgment against one of...

Summary: Notice by abode service is sufficient to enter a personal deficiency judgment against a defendant who does not appear in court.

Metrobank v Cannatello,...

 

The following article by the late Harold I. Levine was...