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September 18, 2015 By
Bank Assignments
Sometimes mortgages have traveled through many different banks and servicers’ hands before a foreclosure lawsuit is brought against the homeowners. The proof of the ownership by the financial institution who brings the lawsuit revolves around the chain of assignments from one previous owner to the next. Sometimes the actual paperwork on the assignments are never completed or are not correctly done. The documentation of the assignments may only exist within the computers of the financial institutions. That is insufficient. The party bringing the foreclosure lawsuit must have the original note and mortgage and be able to show that every step of the way, between the original bank and the bank bringing the foreclosure, involved a proper assignment which was properly filed and executed by the appropriate parties.
Homeowners have been successful in dozens of lawsuits in the Metropolitan New York area in showing the financial institution bringing the foreclosure lawsuit was not a proper party due to a defect in the assignments. This causes the lawsuit to be dismissed! The theory behind the assignments is the party bringing the lawsuit has standing to sue under the terms of a contract (the mortgage and note are contracts). The initiating party in the lawsuit must have a documented ownership interest in the contract. In addition, the party having the ownership interest in the contract must have suffered some damages (the non-payment of the mortgage).