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. ...
Congress recently reenacted the “Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act” (PTFA) on May 24, 2018 which had expired as discussed here at the end of 2014 after running from 2009-2014. The PTFA went back into effect June 24, 2018. Per the ...
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, ...
Typically after a foreclosure sale, if the lender retakes title which happens in many cases, its liability to the HOA for the former owner’s assessments are limited to the lesser of 1% of the original mortgage amount or 12 months ...
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 ...
The 5th DCA recently held in Velden vs Nationstar Mortgage, 5D16-3628 (January 12, 2018) that amounts beyond the 5 year statute of limitations period in foreclosure were not collectible. The Florida Supreme Court in Bartram previously ...
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 3rd DCA recently held, along with the 4th in De Sousa v. JP Morgan Chase, N.A., 170 So. 3d 928 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015), that when a purchaser of a property via deed or foreclosure sale takes title after the senior/first mortgage ...
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 ...
Following the 5th DCA and 3rd DCA recently discussed here, the 4th DCA in Nationstar Mortgage LLC v. Glass, No. 4D15-4561, similarly held that when a borrower successfully argues that the lender did not have standing to foreclosure, ...