Mortgage Forclosure: PA Superior Court holds sheriff sale may be set aside when complaint fails to allege how plaintiff became proper owner of mortgage.

A panel of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania reversed a Common Pleas Court order refusing to set aside a sheriff sale and strike a default judgment when the the record lacked any mention of how the Plaintiff acquired ownership of the mortgage.

Goldbeck, McCafferty & McKeever PC, Philadelphia foreclosure law firm, faces serious charges in Allegheny County Equity Action.

Goldbeck, McCafferty & McKeever PC is one of a handful of law firms in Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania that has handled thousands of mortgage foreclosures throughout the State. However, the firm was delivered a severe blow in Bankruptcy Court this week. Coverage of that matter brought to light a suit recently filed in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court that is likely to have far-reaching consequences — to that firm, to numerous cases statewide and even to real estate previously sold in sheriff sales.

Ron Paul and Wikileaks: The Emperor Has No Clothes.

With leaders of his party calling for prosecution of Wikileak founder Julian Assage for treason, Ron Paul expresses the contrarian viewpoint. He wished out loud on Fox News for a wikileak report of all of the secret documents regarding the Federal Reserve — one of his particular targets. Since when is exposing the truth in the media treason?, he asks. Are the news outlets who reprint the Wikileak documents committing treason, too?

The Cost of Incivility.

No. 537 An article in the New York Times talks about the growing prevalence of impolite behavior and its cost, financial and otherwise. For example, many people eventually quit jobs or don’t give as much effort because they have been treated badly. Such consequences are rarely reported to the wrongdoers, who are blissfully unaware that […]

Goodbye “Adams Drafting”; Hello, “The Koncise Drafter”.

One of our favorite blogs will no longer be updated. The last post went up today on Adams Drafting, a place where you could read about and comment on all of those lawyerly ideosynchrosies that found their way into contracts.

It Was A Good Year To Die Rich.

AD 2010 has been a year to die for — sorry, we mean “in.” As we all know by now, the Federal Estate Tax went away this year, making it a once in a lifetime opportunity for billionaire Americans to expire and leave their empires to their heirs.

What a Thoughtless Christmas Gift!

When I was the lawyer for a small community bank (now evaporated through merger) I was asked to drop by the office of an important bank customer and deliver a business Christmas present to one of the corporate officers. I knew this customer very well, since I had referred it to the bank and had closed numerous loans for the bank with this customer. The office was located on my side of the city and it was December 23. The present was a large wicker basket full of fruit and nuts and boxes of hot chocolate and all of the usual stuff, wrapped up with big bows and covered with red or green cellophane to keep the contents inside the basket. It cost more than a few dollars.

When Buying Real Estate, Follow Your Nose.

No. 533 If you are looking at homes to purchase, pay close attention during the first few seconds after you open the door. You may be able to detect a whiff of something bad when first walking in the front door or when you enter a closed room. Then the smell may seem to go […]

Black Clouds over Black Friday.

The local TV news has so many minutes of air time to fill, even on non-news days like the day after Thanksgiving. So, it is not surprising that the annual ritual of getting up early to stand in line at big box stores leads, even when it doesn’t bleed. What is surprising is the proclaimed consumer optimism this year, hard on the heels of the midterm elections that were read by all to indicate dissatisfaction with the state of the economy.

Q: When is a Disclosure Not a Disclosure?

Once upon a time, not that long ago, a group people with good intentions decided that the best way to insure that other people made good choices was to give them information — lots and lots of information. Today, those other people don’t seem to be doing much better than they did when they were uninformed. Except for one thing: if they decided to sue somebody, they would have to contend with the fact that they were given all of the information they needed. They just didn’t read it.

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