Florida appellate courts have continued to make case law eroding the Florida statute of limitations for foreclosure filings allowing banks to proceed to judgment on previously dismissed cases refiled years after the foreclosure crisis. ...
Florida’s 3rd District Court of Appeal out of Miami recently expanded the rejection of statute of limitations in foreclosure cases in U.S. Bank National Assoc., Trustee v Morelli, et al., Case No. 3D17-286 (Fla. 3d DCA June 6, ...
HSBC Bank USA, Nat’l Ass’n, etc. v. Buset, No. 3D16-1383 (Fla. 3d DCA Feb. 7, 2018)- the court made many significant holdings to foreclosure law gong forward. First, that a note IS in fact a negotiable instrument, the negotiability of ...
There is a rule of Civil Procedure that exists which bars successive lawsuits after 2 tries, often referred to as the “two dismissal rule” under Rule 1.420. The 1st DCA recently held that this rule does not apply to ...
The 5th DCA recently ruled that the trial court erred in distributing surplus to a 3rd party purchaser. FL Statute 45.033, states that surplus foreclosure proceeds are generally disbursed to owner of record (except in certain limited ...
The 5th DCA recently issued Klebanoff v. Bank of N.Y. Mellon, and the 2nd DCA Huntington National Bank v. Watters, which clarify the pleadings requirements for lenders filing subsequent foreclosure actions. Previously, the Court ruled ...
On March 16, 2017, the FL Supreme Court denied all pending motions for rehearing made by the borrowers and other groups who filed briefs on behalf of homeowners in the landmark Bartram case, thus making the opinion issued in November ...
In a rather perplexing decision, Bank of New York Mellon Trust Co. v. Fitzgerald, Case No. 3D16-981, at *2 (3d DCA Mar. 1, 2017), the 3rd DCA recently rules that when a lender sues and loses the case because it cannot prove its ...
The 2nd DCA recently held that 559.715 Florida Statutes, which requires a creditor to send debtor a notice of assignment of a consumer debt 30 days before filing an action, did not apply to foreclosure deficiency actions. Borrower ...
The Florida 4th District Court of Appeal (DCA) reversed the trial court’s ruling in favor of borrowers after the lender accepted partial payments after default. After sending borrowers a notice of default due to non-payment of ...