Article: Foreclosure gridlock: lawyers defending mortgage servicers have their hands full today. The courts are jammed with motions to delay foreclosure actions, and frivolous litigation is going is going viral.(Cover Report: Legislative/Regulatory)

If you want to change the foreclosure process these days, you may have to take a number and get in line. Across the nation, state lawmakers, attorneys general, municipal officeholders, local attorneys and even borrowers are attempting to rewrite the rules governing what happens when a mortgage borrower fails to make his or her payments. * The result of all this has been a quagmire of competing legislation, increased compliance and holding costs for lenders, and a caseload that's clogging court systems across the country. All of that, and yet there's been no significant reduction in foreclosures. * While responsible lenders understand that some borrowers have unfair loans, ...

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