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Lenders Can’t Hide From Misapplication of Mortgage Payments

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Rule 3002.1

mortgage accounting

Who knew 20 years ago how apparently hard it is to account for money paid to you? Even if accounting for money was your business? Today’s raft of mortgage accounting issues were not ones I foresaw when I became a bankruptcy lawyer. Yet every day we encounter cases where the foreclosure notice follows the “all […]

Filed Under: Rule 3002.1

Rule 3002.1 And The Tangled Web of HOA Assessments

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Real property, Rule 3002.1

The Hadfeg decision  was delivered to me in response to a standing search for bankruptcy decisions involving FRBP 3002.1. But multi strands of legal theories run through this one.  The questions, answered and unanswered, are tantalizing. The facts are thus: Prepetition HOA dues scheduled for $5000, while HOA later claimed it was $33,000. No proof […]

Filed Under: Real property, Rule 3002.1 Tagged With: assessment, hoa, lien

Don’t Skimp On Service When Your Client’s House Is On The Line

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Rule 3002.1

Rule 3002.1 service

Is the Chapter 13 trustee jeopardizing the benefits to my client of Rule 3002.1 by sloppy service? Unwilling to expend more than a single postage stamp to effect notice?  Just going through the motions here? The short answer is: I don’t know yet. But the issue stood out when, for reasons that are yet inexplicable, […]

Filed Under: Rule 3002.1 Tagged With: 2018

Direct Mortgage Payments: Inside, Under, Or Outside The Plan

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Cases new & significant, Rule 3002.1

payments under plan

Are post petition payments on the debtor’s mortgage “under the plan”? Not in the view of  one judge. Direct payments on a a residential mortgage loan are not “payments under the plan” for purpose of Bankruptcy Code § 1328(a), Thus Judge Thomas Perkins struck back at the cases that have used failure to maintain mortgage payments […]

Filed Under: Cases new & significant, Rule 3002.1 Tagged With: 2018

Battle On When Bank Back Tracks On Home Loan Balance

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Rule 3002.1

  It’s war, after all. Remember the office pool I  created following the lender’s statement under FRBP 3002.1 that the loan was fully current? We were betting on how long after the Chapter 13 discharge it would take Wells Fargo would screw up the debtor’s home loan account. Did anyone out there pick less than […]

Filed Under: Rule 3002.1 Tagged With: 2017

All Dressed Up & Nowhere To Go

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Rule 3002.1

mortgage loan

It’s the pits to be stood up by a Rule. Rule 3002.1 is, in my opinion, the best thing that’s happened in bankruptcy in years.  I’m a goggle-eyed fan. Whether you chalk mortgage servicing problems up to ineptitude or venality, it is indisputable that a mortgage servicer can’t audit a loan file and come up […]

Filed Under: Rule 3002.1 Tagged With: 2017

Mortgage Servicing Under the Microscope

By Cathy Moran, Esq. Filed Under: Real property, Rule 3002.1

Rule 3002.1

The judge looked closely at the creditor’s accounting records and found the usual fright. Having looked, the court held secured creditor  USDA in contempt of the automatic stay and the confirmation order for its loan servicing blunders. Two years after the debtor’s discharge, after an evidentiary hearing and a written opinion, the debtor still didn’t […]

Filed Under: Real property, Rule 3002.1

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