Observing an “emerging consensus in this Circuit” that lien stripping can be accomplished through Chapter 13 Plan Completion, the court in Litton Loan Servicing, et al v. Robert Blendheim, et. al, In re Blendheim, Nos. 13-35354, 13-35412, U.S. Court of Appeals For the Ninth Circuit, 2015. You can watch oral arguments here. So, what do […]
A former debtor in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy case recently hired my firm to get rid of the lien that survived the bankruptcy. This, in spite of the recent Supreme Court Decision handing banks yet another victory. Read the New York Times (@NYTimes) Article, here. The Supreme Court ruling will now prevent underwater homeowners from […]
What happens when you take a homeowner who defaults on their mortgage into bankruptcy to stop the foreclosure sale? You get a situation that is disease ridden with errors. Katie Porter (@MsKatiePorter) recently wrote about this over at Credit Slips (@CreditSlips) in her article, What do bankruptcy mortgage servicing and Ebola have in common? where […]