Lender is Simultaneously Foreclosing During Loan Modification Negotiations – is That Kosher?
ATTENTION HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE. Just because a mortgage lender is negotiating a loan modification doesn't mean the lender has to suspend its rights when the borrower is in default.
This is a rather common scenario in our difficult economic times. The bank sends its borrower a letter offering a loan modification. The borrower accepts the ban...
New Jersey Judgment Search
NEW JERSEY JUDGMENT SEARCH
Need to find out whether someone you're doing business with or about to enter into a business transaction with has debt problems? Or perhaps you just want to check your name against the New Jersey state database of judgments?
The New Jersey Judiciary website offers a free judgment lien search for judgments docketed in T...
New Jersey Appeals Court Confirms Statute of Limitations In Fraudulent Asset Transfer Claims
In a published decision issued on January 12, 2016, the New Jersey Appellate Division confirmed that the same 4-year statute of limitations period for asserting fraudulent asset transfer claims applies in commercial transactions and tort claims regardless whether or not the creditor has obtained a judgment. Rosario, et al. vs. Marco Construction ...
NJ Appellate Court Holds That Law Firm’s Subsequent Mortgage Lien has Priority Over Factoring Company’s Earlier Recorded Mortgage Providing for Optional Advances
It's the rare occasion that a prior recorded mortgage is held to be inferior to a subsequently recorded mortgage. But that was the ruling by the New Jersey Appellate Division in a decision published on June 17, 2015. Rosenthal & Rosenthal vs. Riker, Danzig, Sherer, Hyland & Peretti, L.L.P., (Docket No. A-2890-13T3 (App. Div. 2015). This...