An unmarried couple’s joint tenancy with survivorship outlasted their romantic relationship, leaving the male partner to collect mortgage payments on their jointly owned property after the female partner died, in a new decision from Norfolk Circuit Court. The male partner ...

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A Roanoke City Circuit Court denies a petition to dismiss this condemnation proceeding filed by the Roanoke Redevelopment and Housing Authority, filed after the RRHA entered into a settlement agreement with the property owners for $2.9 million, for their conveyance ...

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Updated 10/14/10 10:55 a.m. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has joined the attorneys general of all 50 states and the District of Columbia to investigate paperwork errors that have led banks and processing firms to suspend foreclosures across the country. ...

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Bank of America has suspended foreclosure sales nationwide pending a review of foreclosure documents in all 50 states, an action that may be triggering foreclosure holds with other institutions. Spokesman Richard G. Simon with the Charlotte-based bank on Friday told ...

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A Charlottesville U.S. District Court remands to state court a Nelson County homeowner’s complaint that defendant initiated foreclosure proceedings without affording the homeowner a face-to-face meeting as required under 24 C.F.R. § 203.604(b); there is complete diversity of the parties, ...

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An Alexandria U.S. District Court dismisses a borrower’s challenge to foreclosure proceedings alleging violations of the Truth in Lending Act, the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, fraud and breach of contract. The TILA and ...

Tagged with: Judge James C. Cacheris Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although a borrower says she has an expert witness to back her claim that she was charged an unreasonable fee for a title examination, a magistrate judge in the Richmond U.S. District Court dismisses the borrower’s claim under the Truth ...

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In late 2008, VLW reported that legal aid lawyers were organizing to fend off foreclosures. With one in every 608 Virginia households hit with a foreclosure filing in August, there’s plenty of work for private practitioners too. Fighting a foreclosure ...

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Richmond lawyer Henry McLaughlin has a series of cases pending in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that raise issues under the Truth in Lending Act: • Stuart v. LaSalle Bank N.A., No. 10-1446. Appeal docketed 4/20/10; trial court ...

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Bexley Association, a subdivision association in Chesterfield County, cannot enforce a restrictive covenant against an owner who had no notice and never agreed to buy into a homeowners association or to incur fees prior to purchasing his property, says a ...

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