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Looking For Errors and Finding Them: One Judge’s Experience With Mortgage Foreclosure.

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | September 1, 2009

Posted by Cliff Tuttle (c) 2009

The New York Times ran an article today that should be instructive to people who wonder why there is so much controversy over mortgage foreclosures.

Judge Arthur M. Schack frequently dismisses mortgage foreclosure petitions on his own motion because the pleadings are just not right. Every one of the defects mentioned in the article appear with regularity in mortgage foreclosure pleadings, which are basically forms containing bare-bones numbers that beg for inquiry. Read the article.

CLT

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