Fri Mar 16, 2012 by Oppenheim Law on Foreclosure Fraud
Clerks of court warn budget cuts will delay filings Just as I had predicted (and feared) now that the Florida legislature has passed a 7% budget cut to the state’s Clerk of Courts, officials from those offices are already warning of a major slowdown at courthouses across the state. Case filings may now take weeks instead of days. Hearings may […]
Fri Mar 9, 2012 by Oppenheim Law on Florida Law News
Bank of America to Reduce Principal For 200,000 Underwater Homeowners First some good news, if you’ve got an underwater mortgage owned by Bank of America. BofA has come to a separate agreement with the US government to to help reduce some the fines it owes to the Housing and Urban Development Agency from last month’s huge settlement. Bank of America […]
Wed Dec 1, 2010 by Oppenheim Law on Florida Foreclosures, Florida Law News, Florida Real Estate, Foreclosure Defense & Roy Oppenheim
It just keeps getting better and better…in a recent letter sent to the chief judges of all 20 Florida judicial circuit courts, Chief Justice Charles Canady of the Florida Supreme Court was compelled by horror stories from the foreclosure courts to remind judges they should be following the law when deciding foreclosure cases. The Rolling Stone article by Matt Taibbi: […]
Tue Nov 16, 2010 by Oppenheim Law on Florida Foreclosures, Florida Law News, Florida Real Estate, Foreclosure Defense, Foreclosure Fraud, Short Sales & Strategic Default
by Attorney Geoffrey Sherman and Roy Oppenheim Once again, we have Lore versus Law. I’m sure by now when you hear the term “Rocket-Docket” you immediately associate this term with how the Florida’s courts are handling the foreclosure crisis. For those of you who don’t know, Florida’s legislature appropriated approximately $9.6 million this year from Federal stimulus funds to clear […]
