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Foreclosure / Unclean Hands: Trial court erred by applying the unclean hands doctrine to bar foreclosure because there was no support for the application of this doctrine where there was no...more
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Restraint on Alienation: Option clause in declaration, giving 814 Property a first option to purchase condominium unit, was an unreasonable restraint on alienation – 814 Prop. Holdings, LLC v. New...more
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Foreclosure / Fee Judgment / Appellate Jurisdiction: On the facts presented, appellate court had jurisdiction to address whether litigant who obtained the fee judgment against Nationstar was a proper...more
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Listing Agreement: Broker submitted evidence that sellers were first in breach of listing agreement before a particular clause in the agreement’s termination provision could have been implicated, as...more
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Foreclosure / Mobile Home: 21st Mortgage’s unperfected security interest in mobile home — which was a fixture to mortgaged real property — did not survive the real property’s foreclosure by...more
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Deed / Automatic Reverter: Deed to municipality was a fee simple conveyance with an automatic reverter clause, and section 95.36’s limitations period was inapplicable to that deed; instead, section...more
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Foreclosure / Lost Note: Although evidence presented to establish purported right to enforce lost note was not particularly impressive, there was enough evidence to require court’s rendering of a...more
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Foreclosure / Doc Stamp Taxes: Trial court did not abuse its discretion in granting motion for involuntary dismissal of action based on section 201.08(1)(b), Florida Statutes, where documentary stamp...more
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Foreclosure / Clerk’s Registry Fees: Clerk was entitled to registry fees paid in connection with a sale that took place, even though sale was subsequently vacated – Lee Cnty. Clerk of Court v....more
Condominium Ass’n / Receivership / Scope: Trial court erred in granting the receiver’s ex parte motion in the post-judgment proceeding supplementary to broaden the scope of her receivership of the condominium association to...more
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Foreclosure / Bankruptcy: Trial court erred in entering final order precluding defendant from raising any defenses in foreclosure action based upon surrender in bankruptcy because (i) debtor only...more
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Online Marketplace for Lodging / Arbitrability / Delegation to Arbitrator: Company’s terms of service incorporated by reference the AAA rules and clearly and unmistakably evidenced the parties’...more
Purchase & Sale Agreement / Fraud Disclaimer: Even though parties, in a purchase and sale agreement, stipulated that no fraud had been committed and that neither party had relied on the representations of the other party made...more
Foreclosure / Surplus Funds: Trial court erred in awarding surplus funds in association’s lien foreclosure sale to first mortgagee, as the owner of record (the mortgagor) on the date of the filing of the lis pendens was...more
Fla. Const., Art. VII, Sec. 3(a) / Ad Valorem Tax Exemptions / Municipal or Public Purpose: City was not entitled to ad valorem tax exemptions for its golf course and related facilities, despite owning said property, which...more
Foreclosure / Post-Judgment Allegations / Intrinsic Fraud: Allegations of fraud asserted by borrower seeking to undo her stipulation to final judgment of foreclosure in prior action were intrinsic, rather than extrinsic, and...more
Foreclosure / Statute of Limitations: Subsequent owner of property, which purchased property at homeowners association's junior lienholder foreclosure, took the property subject to successor mortgagee's ongoing rights, which...more
Lease Option / Fair Market Value: While the market value of property subject to a lease-purchase option is generally determined as unencumbered by the lease, specific language instructing appraisers to use the fixed rental...more
Bankruptcy / Section 505(a)(2)(C) / Property Taxes: Section 505(a)(2)(C) of the Bankruptcy Code precluded property owner from challenging allegedly improper property taxes in the course of its bankruptcy proceeding because...more
HAMP / Loan Modification / Cause of Action: No independent cause of action for lender's failure to provide loan modification agreement under HAMP - Riano v. Bank of Am., N.A., Nos. 3D20-1260, 3D20-1473 (Fla. 3d DCA Jan. 19,...more
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Lease / Claim of Lien: Trial court erred in its interpretation of section 713.10, Florida Statutes (2013), by granting summary judgment in favor of the lessor/owner, where the exception to lien...more
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Foreclosure / Reverse Mortgage: Surviving spouse who did not sign the note did not qualify as a “borrower” by signing the mortgage and related documents – OneWest Bank, N.A. v. Leek-Tannenbaum, No....more
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Cross-Easement Agreement / Res Judicata: Doctrine of res judicata is not applicable where the claims in the two cases concern different periods of time, and the facts that were essential to maintain...more
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Foreclosure / Default: Trial court did not abuse discretion in determining that plaintiff’s counsel was not aware of the defaulting party’s intention to defend against foreclosure lawsuit – College...more
With its recent decision in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection & Management Services Inc., which concluded that a debt collector’s mundane transmittal of consumer information to its dunning vendor ran afoul of the Fair Debt...more