Among the state systems governing foreclosure, Hawaii has a particularly fraud-riddled, draconian process. Elderly Suzanne Bonds was unbelievably exploited by that process in 2004, but Hawaii’s courts refused to help. Now, her …
A New Jersey court has invalidated a foreclosure by insisting on a basic concept of due process — that the bank must authenticate the documents it uses to make its case. But in the case of Wells Fargo v. Sandra A. Ford, there …
When the state tightened its foreclosure rules in response to the document crisis, it ordered the six largest servicers to explain why they should be allowed to continue foreclosing on homes. In effect, their response went some…
Judges in several states are emerging as defenders of due process and the rule of law when confronted with the banks’ rampant use of false foreclosure paperwork. Alas, that’s not so true in Florida, where a foreclosure can be h…