N.J. Law Journal reports:
Homeowners fighting foreclosure have a new weapon: a published trial court ruling that the notice required by law to be sent to mortgagors by certified mail must identify the lender and not just the loan servicing company. Because the foreclosure notice sent to George and Mona Elghossain did not name the Bank of New York Mellon, which owns their debt, Middlesex County Chancery Division Judge Glenn Berman dismissed the suit without prejudice, rejecting the bank’s request to cure the defect by redoing the notice correctly. Monday’s ruling, Bank of New York Mellon v. Elghossain, MID-F-13402-10, follows a series of decisions finding would-be foreclosers that did not have possession of the original mortgage note lacked standing and could not go ahead with the process.
