Rules Against Dual Tracking
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) provides rules and guidelines to ensure that homeowners and struggling borrowers are treated fairly by mortgage servicers. The CFPB rules are also in place to ensure no one is wrongly foreclosed upon. One of the ways the CFPB protects homeowners and struggling borrowers from being wrongly foreclosed on is by restricting mortgage servicers from dual tracking. Dual tracking is when a mortgage servicer continues to foreclose on a h
The Traverse Hearing in Kings County
A Traverse Hearing is a pre-trial hearing ordered when a defendant has attacked the propriety of the service of process in a civil action. Typically, a defendant will raise the issue of improper service in an omnibus motion to dismiss plaintiff’s action, which will likely include attacks on many other aspects of plaintiff’s claim (ie. Standing, etc.). As the issue of proper service raises the question of whether the court has personal jurisdiction over a defendant, judges wil
