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FORT LAUDERDALE (CBS4) ― A new program is in the works to help Broward County homeowners save their homes from foreclosure. Later this summer, a mediation program will go into effect, aimed at bringing struggling homeowners and banks together as soon as a foreclosure action is filed.
The program is the result of a study by the Florida Supreme Court seeking ways to reduce the crushing backlog of foreclosure cases in the courts and find solutions to the foreclosure crisis.
Broward County Chief Judge Victor Tobin put together the mediation program for Broward County, which has 40,000 pending foreclosures in the court system.
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