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10/12/2009 10:25:13 AM EST

How to Help Your Client Victimized by a Real Estate Foreclosure Scam

By Melissa Huelsman

Posted by Melissa Huelsman

With the current rash of foreclosures, scams and scam artists are popping up all over, trying to take advantage of people already suffering through difficult times.

Melissa A. Huelsman, Esq., explores litigation strategies to help you tackle problems faced by your clients who are victims of equity skimming. In § 5B.01, Ms. Huelsman describes in detail the tactics of the foreclosure rescue scam artists in “The Anatomy of a Foreclosure Rescue Scam.”

Real Estate Financing (LexisNexis Matthew Bender) now includes New Chapter 5B, Foreclosure Rescue Scam Litigation. This summary highlights strategies you can use when representing homeowners who have been victimized by foreclosure rescue scams.

New Chapter 5B, Foreclosure Rescue Scam Litigation, explores equitable and common law as well as state and federal statutory bases of relief. In her discussion of Representing Victims of Foreclosure Rescue Scams in § 5B.04, she sets out advice relating to:

preliminary information gathering and decision-making;
identifying the parties involved;
choosing which court to file the action in; and
discovery

Ms. Huelsman provides valuable examples throughout the chapter and a detailed checklist of required evidence in § 5B.05.

To view a detailed excerpt from Melissa A. Huelsman’s new chapter on Foreclosure Rescue Scam Litigation, click here.

Additional highlights in recent updates to the Real Estate Financing treatise published by LexisNexis include

New Special Tax Alert summarizing important effects of the AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT OF 2009 relating to real state.
Revised Section 1.03, Recent Trends in Real Estate Financing.
Revised Chapter 2, Tax Issues Affecting Real Estate Financing.
Revised Chapter 5A, Mortgage Fraud Legislation.

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