{"id":683,"date":"2011-02-11T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/?p=683"},"modified":"2023-12-21T17:17:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:17:16","slug":"another-court-refuses-to-allow-a-bank-to-foreclose-when-it-cannot-produce-authenticated-proof-of-the-assignments-of-the-mortgage-that-give-it-a-right-to-foreclose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/2011\/02\/11\/another-court-refuses-to-allow-a-bank-to-foreclose-when-it-cannot-produce-authenticated-proof-of-the-assignments-of-the-mortgage-that-give-it-a-right-to-foreclose\/","title":{"rendered":"Another court refuses to allow a bank to foreclose when it cannot produce authenticated proof of the assignments of the mortgage that give it a right to foreclose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the case of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.judiciary.state.nj.us\/opinions\/a3627-06.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Ford,<\/a>\u00a02011 N.J. Super. LEXIS 13 (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. 2011), the court remanded to allow the bank to provide proof that it had a right to foreclose through authenticated writings proving that it was assigned the mortgage and note by the prior holder of the mortgage and that it had the right to foreclose at the time the foreclosure action was brought.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/mortgages\/\" rel=\"tag\">Mortgages<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/category\/statute-of-frauds\/\" rel=\"tag\">Statute of Frauds<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the case of\u00a0Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Ford,\u00a02011 N.J. Super. LEXIS 13 (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. 2011), the court remanded to allow the bank to provide proof that it had a right to foreclose through authenticated writings proving that it was assigned the mortgage and note by the prior holder of the mortgage and that it had the right to foreclose at the time the foreclosure action was brought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mortgages","category-statute-of-frauds"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"jsinger","author_link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/author\/jsinger\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/joseph-singer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}