Real Estate & Property Law

When Your Mortgage Company Files Bankruptcy
The foreclosure crisis sweeping the nation is also sending some mortgage companies into financial ruin, leaving many folks caught in the middle...

2.47% of All Residential Mortgage Are in Foreclosure
According to the Mortgage Bankers Association's Delinquency Survey, 2.47% of 1-4 family residential mortgages are in foreclosure and 6...

A Frat House Filing
We know the mortgage foreclosure crisis is bad, but now it's hitting on frat boys?! Fraternity files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to save their home from foreclosure.

Using Chapter 7 Bankrputcy To Battle Mortgage Lender Seeking Foreclosure
I probably get one or more calls and emails each day from someone who wants to file Chapter 7 bankruptcy because they are facing a mortgage foreclosure...

Chapter 13 and House Mortgage: Curing a Delinquent Mortgage
Chapter 13 bankruptcy permits a debtor to cure a delinquent mortgage payment over a period up to five years in length...

Mortgage Loan Modification May Soon Be Allowed in Chapter 13 Bankruptcy
A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate last night will change the bankruptcy law to allow judges to modify a debtor’s mortgage loan on his home...

How to Stop Home Foreclosure
Bankruptcy can Stop Foreclosure

Whats a Home Loan Modification?
How to Qualify for a Home Loan Modification

Home Mortgages
What to look for

Bankruptcy Law
A complete prime (pre-2005)

How do you recover money from a stop payment placed on a personal check given to you?
you can always take them to small claims court and sure them for 3 times the amo...

Must I refinance my house aftering taking full ownership after a divorce via a quit claim?
When financing there are at least two documents...the mortgage and the note. The...

My house has bee sold at a sheriff sale the proceeds of the sale covered the first mortgage. Am i still required to pay the second mortgage?
You are indeed still responsible for the home loan that was not paid through the...

How to learn content of deceased parent's will?
go to the court house where your father died or the county he lived in. It is pu...

Protection from damages from Internet advertising fraud for owners of an Incorporated company?
The "corporate veil" that ordinarily protects business owners and managers from ...

Loan Backers
Mortgage Lenders Network pays $855,000 bankruptcy settlement for unfunded mortgages.

National City Mortgage
$4.6 million payout resolves mortgage suit.

Air Line Bankruptcy
BCI Aircraft Leasing agrees to pay $600,000 settlement related to Delta Air Lines bankruptcy claims.

Bankruptcy Reorganization
Calpine Corp. pays $2.13 million bankruptcy settlement.

Countrywide Financial Corp.
allegedly charged borrowers improper foreclosure fees.

Lehman Brothers
Bankrupt, Files Chapter 11