by Moe Bedard
Jacksonville Area Legal Aid on Tuesday said it was folding its two-year-old foreclosure defense program due to lack of funding.
Project House-Hold, a satellite office with two attorneys who zeroed in on ZIP codes with high rates of foreclosures, is closing today at 1 p.m. The community-based law firm provided civil legal assistance to the city’s [...]
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by Moe Bedard
The system also led to confusion. When MERS was involved, borrowers who hoped to work out their loans couldn’t identify who they should turn to.
As cases filed by MERS grew, lawyers representing troubled borrowers began questioning how an electronic registry with no ownership claims had the right to evict people. April Charney, a consumer lawyer [...]
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