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Dyck-O’Neal Increases Florida Deficiency Judgment Collection Efforts: 19 Articles About Florida Deficiency Judgments

Last Update: 5/7/2017 It appears as if Dyck-O’Neal is again aggressively filing lawsuits to collect on old foreclosure judgments. In our office, I’ve been receiving a lot more calls about these types of cases, with most of the lawsuits being filed by a Tampa law...

2014 Surprise for Florida Underwater Mortgages: Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act Tax Break Has Not Been Extended – Deficiency Will Be Taxed in 2014

This time last year, we discussed how Congress was “kicking the can down the road” by passing federal legislation that extended the 2007 Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act’s tax break for one year as part of last year’s Fiscal Cliff legislation. (Read the details...

July 2014 Deadline for Older Foreclosure Deficiency Judgments – Small South Florida Banks and Credit Unions Increasingly Aggressive on Deficiency Collection Efforts

According to the new Florida Fair Foreclosure legislation, the deadline for a bank to sue a defaulting home owner for the amount left on a mortgage after a foreclosure (the deficiency) was changed from 5 years to 1 year, regardless of when the cause of action accrued....