Palm Beach Administrative Order Brings Rocket Docket Back to South Florida Foreclosures: What Does This Mean, Good and Bad, to South Florida Home Owners?

| February 26, 2013

Last week, an Administrative Order was issued by the Chief Judge for the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County, Florida that will have a huge impact on Florida home owners and South Florida borrowers dealing with foreclosure issues.  (Read the Order here.) Why the Palm Beach County Administrative [...]

Florida Judicial System Needed for Fairness in Florida Housing Crisis: Bad Acts Demonstrate Need for Courts, Not Reason to Throw Out Established Florida Legal Standards

| February 5, 2013

Yesterday, Florida’s foreclosure situation hit the national news again, as NPR picked up WUSF reporter Robin Sussingham’s story, “Foreclosure Process Hammers Florida’s Housing Market,” where the impact of Florida’s judical process – and our state’s judicial foreclosure system – is considered as a contributing factor to Florida having the highest foreclosure rate in the nation, [...]

Florida Short Sales and Florida Foreclosure Defense Deadline for Tax Benefits is Now December 31, 2013 After Fiscal Cliff Legislation Signed Into Law Today

| January 3, 2013

When you hear the talking heads discuss how Washington has “kicked the can down the road,” for Florida home owners and those Floridians interested in short sales or mortgage foreclosure defense this means one thing: they’ve got one more year to get their property sold. According to the Fiscal Cliff legislation that was signed into [...]

Foreclosure Lawsuits and the Rocket Docket of Foreclosure Cases: Miami-Dade County Is Setting Old Foreclosure Cases for Trial and Pushing Foreclosures Forward

| December 20, 2012

Foreclosure lawsuits are proceeding to trial here in Miami, and it’s being reported that the Miami-Dade Circuit Court, with its foreclosure docket,  is the busiest circuit court in the entire state.   According to the Miami-Dade Clerk: there have been 24,289 foreclosure filings this year (not counting December 2012); there were 16,672 foreclosure filings in [...]

Florida Strategic Defaults: Attitudes Are Changing and Strategic Defaults on Underwater Mortgages May be On the Rise in Florida – Why You Need a Lawyer in a Strategic Default

| October 30, 2012

Last week, TIME Magazine’s Martha C. White wrote an article asking the following question, “Is the Stigma of Ditching Your Underwater Mortgage Fading? ” and the conclusion reached in that piece shouldn’t be much of a surprise to most anyone living here in foreclosure filled South Florida.  The answer is Yes. Yes, the stigma of [...]