Life used to be simple. When a bank or insurance company made a real estate loan in California, its borrower signed a note and a deed of trust, our form of mortgage. (Usually, they used blue ink to ...
On Dec. 24, 2018, the day before Christmas, the Superior Court in MB Financial Bank v. Rao, 921 EDA 2018, provided borrowers throughout the commonwealth of Pennsylvania with a proverbial “lump of coal ...
Major mortgage servicers' internal reviews of foreclosure documents extend far beyond robo-signers' affidavits verifying a borrower's mortgage debt. Servicers are looking more broadly at all other ...
The court was confronted with the following central issues: whether a lost note affidavit complied with the requirements of enforcement of a lost, stolen or destroyed instrument, 13 Pa.C.S. Section ...
When you take out a mortgage, or any other kind of loan, the law requires you to sign a document that signifies your agreement to repay the money. The promissory note represents a binding legal ...