JP Morgan Chase previously announced that it was seizing all further legal action on 56,000 pending foreclosure proceedings. The bank is taking this action due to the fact that its employees have improperly prepared legal documents related to foreclosure proceedings.
These suspensions took place in the 23 states where foreclosure lawsuits must be approved by a court.
New York is one of these states! Chase Manhattan has started an investigation examining their employees actions in foreclosure proceedings. Chase is the third financial institution to take this action. GMAC and Bank of America have already taken similar actions.
Chase has acknowledged that their employees who signed numerous documents related to foreclosure proceedings have signed so many documents that they are now referred to as “robo-signers”.
Lawyers in foreclosure proceedings representing homeowners have uncovered that individuals have signed as many as 10,000 affidavits a month. Query: Is it possible they actually read these affidavits? These affidavits indicate that the person who prepared them reviewed the mortgage file. There was not sufficient time to review the mortgage files.
The courts expect numerous foreclosure proceedings brought by Chase Manhattan to be contested by attorneys who represent the homeowners. Due do uncovering this new information, it is expected that courts will look more carefully at the documents in proceedings brought before them involving the foreclosures of these homes. The solution to this foreclosure crisis is for the banks to become more realistic, more accessible and more willing to provide the homeowners with mortgage modifications.
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