The Staten Island Advance reports on MFY’s efforts to save the home of a Staten Island father of three who was denied a mortgage transfer after his wife died of cancer. Wells Fargo Denies Mortgage Transfer to Widow
A Queens Supreme Court judge granted MFY’s motion to dismiss a foreclosure action against a Queens homeowner by showing that HSBC, as trustee for a residential mortgage-backed security trust, did not own the note or the mortgage and therefore had no legal standing to foreclose. Queens-Homeowner-Beats-Back-HSBC’s-Attempt-to-Foreclose
New York Times columnist Joe Nocera shows how a tenacious MFY attorney saved the home of an elderly Queens homeowner.
A class action lawsuit charges that Bank of America broke the law by failing to carry through on contractual promises to permanently modify mortgage payments for New York homeowners who successfully completed the trial modification period under the federal government’s Make Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP).
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