Held Hostage by a Home Depending on reader response- this column may become an ongoing Sunday feature on LivingLies. Let us know what you think. ______________________________________________________________________ Although Neil Garfield eloquently describes the legal dynamics of foreclosure, there is also a human battle waged in millions of homes nationwide that remains hidden behind walls of shame, […]

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Martha Coakley gets it. Read her letter. Being a politician she does not say that the abstract fear of strategic defaults on all loans across the board is absurd. Well, actually she does say it. Principal reductions and ending patently illegal policies preventing homeowners from buying back their own property at auction are at the […]

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There many ways to win a case, so what I am saying in this article should be taken in the context of a larger reality where lawyers are winning hearings and winning the entire case using their own style, strategies and tactics. And it is equally true that any case management plan, regardless of the […]

Tags: discovery, LITIGATION, mortgages, Motion Practice, trial practice
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MOST POPULAR ARTICLES GET COMBO TITLE AND SECURITIZATION ANALYSIS – CLICK HERE FHFA ACCUSES BANKS OF FRAUD: THEY KNEW THEY WERE LYING “FHFA has refrained from sugar coating the banks’ alleged conduct as mere inadvertence, negligence, or recklessness, as many plaintiffs have done thus far.  Instead, it has come right out and accused certain banks […]

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SERVICES YOU NEED I’m afraid I need to throw little water on our parade here. Yes its true that the bell has rung — but it isn’t the end of the boxing match, it’s just the end of the current round. We bloodied them up a bit but they have their own strategies and they […]

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SEE ALSO BOE PAPER ON ABS DISCLOSURE condocmar10 If the Bank of England wants this information, how can this court deem it irrelevant? NOTE: BOE defines investors as note-holders. information on the remaining life, balance and prepayments on a loan; data on the current valuation and loan-to-value ratios on underlying property and collateral; and interest […]

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