It's June, a special month for honoring loved ones, especially parents and grandparents by raising Elder Abuse Awareness. World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is officially June 15th and it's an ideal time to educate oneself on how to protect elders from becoming victims of financial abuse.

Reps Madeleine Dean (PA-04), Kelly Armstrong (ND-At Large), and 31 of their colleagues introduced the bipartisan SECURE Notarization Act of 2021 that will update and modernize our notarization process in and outside of the United States.

FCRA: Charged off account appearing on credit report was not a factual inaccuracy, but a legal dispute, and could not sustain cause of action under FCRA – Erenthal v. Experian Info. Sols., Inc., No. 2:20-cv-02785 (C.D. Cal. Feb. 26, 2021) (granting motions to dismiss with prejudice)...

Foreclosure: Trial court cannot arbitrarily reject evidence or testimony in a mortgage foreclosure proceeding, and lender that proved elements was entitled to foreclosure judgment – U.S. Bank, N.A. v. Devoe, No. 5D20-7 (Fla. 5th DCA Mar. 26, 2021) (reversed and remanded)

On Thursday, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law, declaring June 19th, or Juneteenth, a federal holiday. Biden’s order commemorates the date the last enslaved African-Americans were informed that they were free. Wonderful news, right? Wrong. Reached Friday, many mortgage industry professionals were doing damage control — delaying closings, pushing back notices and modifying loans. Others had already left for the beach.

Colorado recently enacted House Bill (HB) 21-1224 to amend provisions governing overbids in connection with the foreclosure sale of real property. The bill was approved on May 28, 2021, and took effect immediately.

On June 17, 2021, the Illinois Supreme Court issued an opinion resolving a split in the appellate courts on whether or not a summons can be properly served in Cook County, Illinois by someone other than a Cook County Sheriff if the case is not one that was filed in Cook County.

The Uniform Commercial Code was established to provide predictability and conformity in commercial transactions. Certain states have adopted nonstandard UCC provisions, which create an unreliable and unpredictable market for secured creditors. In addition, statutory liens, which are liens arising under federal and state statute, may disrupt the priority of secured creditors' interest in a debtor's assets. In re First River Energy, L.L.C. (986 F.3d 914, 917 (5th Cir. 2021)) illustrates the issues arising from the competing interests of secured creditors under the laws of different states.

The owner of the land where a Walgreens pharmacy sits at Old Gick Road and Route 50 is suing the operator of a retail plaza next door, saying it placed the sign on the Walgreens property without permission many years ago.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held last month that state legislatures may create legally protected interests whose violation support Article III standing, subject to certain federal limitations, on interlocutory appeal from a motion for judgment on the pleadings in a case involving a putative class action suit against a bank for alleged violations of New York’s mortgage-satisfaction-recording statutes. The court held that the New York law violations alleged constitute a concrete harm to plaintiffs in the form of reputational injury and limitations on borrowing capacity.

If you aren’t quite sure about the difference between trespass to try title and suit to quiet title, Lockhart as Tr. of Lockhart Fam. Bypass Tr. v. Chisos Mins., LLC explains. But first, …

Local governments may face challenges as a new proposed legislation regarding relief from burdens on real property rights awaits the approval of Governor DeSantis.

On May 27, 2021, a division of the Colorado Court of Appeals issued its opinion in Amada Family Limited Partnership v. Pomeroy, 2021 COA 73. In that case, the court decided two significant issues that apparently had never been expressly ruled on by a Colorado appellate court before: (1) that Colorado’s common-law after-acquired title doctrine was not abrogated by adoption of the after-acquired interest statute; and (2) that utility easements may be implied by necessity.

An error surrounding the title and who owns lands used by CN Rail near Prince Rupert’s waterfront has been discovered due to a local group lobbying for improved noise control from increased train traffic, Prince Rupert Environmental Society (PRES) stated in a press release, on June 17.

Shirley Gibson, 86, made the annual trek to a county office to pay her property taxes earlier this year, only to be told they were already paid by the new owner.

Jonathan Fowler, DPhil, associate professor of archaeology at Saint Mary’s University, combined a centuries-old map with a modern 3D terrain model to portray Fort Anne and its surrounding in stunning detail — just as the Nova Scotia site looked in 1706.

Until 1934, Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera was a Spanish island off the coast of North Africa.

Who isn't fond of fonts? Even if we don't know their names, we associate specific letter types with certain brands, feelings, and levels of trust.

In the mid and late-19th century, photographers captured scenes of New York City life on some of the earliest cameras invented. The advent of the daguerrotype reached the city in the late 1830s, which produced a unique image on a polished, silver-plated copper sheet. Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, moved to a studio at the corner of Nassau and Beekman Streets, where he instructed aspiring photographers and image-makers.