In 2007, Chad P. Johnson and Stewart S. Minnick entered into a written agreement whereby, after Minnick’s death, Johnson would purchase farmland he had been renting from Minnick and Minnick’s sister for a specified price. The purchase price was to be funded by an insurance policy owned by Johnson on Minnick’s life. Following Minnick’s death in 2012, the proceeds of the policy were paid to

[¶1.] Sarah Wiseman appeals the circuit court’s ruling that Charles Wiseman’s past due child support payments were not retroactively modifiable prior to May 2012. The circuit court denied Sarah’s claim pursuant to SDCL 25-7-7.3, which prohibits retroactive modification of past due child support. We affirm.
Facts and Procedural History
[¶2.] On November 17, 2008, the circuit court e

Shortly before the collapse of the housing market and the onset of the Great Recession, appellants Eliyahu and Yifah Gavra, respondent Isaac Agam, and Eran Cohen formed a partnership to purchase and develop a parcel of land in Los Altos Hills. The partners planned to subdivide the property and build two or three houses for resale. They successfully purchased and subdivided the property into three

William Russell appeals a final judgment of foreclosure entered in favor of
Nationstar Mortgage, LLC (Nationstar), following a bench trial. We reverse because
Nationstar failed to establish that the original plaintiff, Aurora Loan Services, LLC
(Aurora), had standing to foreclose at the time Aurora filed the foreclosure complaint.
On February 25, 2011, Aurora filed a single-count,

Defendants-Appellants Jerry D. Kerley and Jeffrey Whaley were
convicted following a jury trial in the Eastern District of Tennessee of conspiracy to commit wire
fraud affecting a financial institution and bank fraud, wire fraud affecting a financial institution,
bank fraud, making a false statement to a financial institution, and money laundering, all arising
out of a mortgage frau

DALLAS, TX — A Certified Public Accountant (CPA) was sentenced on a mail fraud conviction stemming from his embezzlement of funds from his employer, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.

Daniel L. Mangini, 61, of Southlake, Texas, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $2,459,218.44 in restitution, which includes the victi

DENVER – Ronald Benjamin, age 49, of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Wiley Y. Daniel to serve 14 months in federal prison for wire fraud and aiding and abetting, federal law enforcement authorities announced. Following his prison sentence, Benjamin was ordered to spend 3 years on supervised release. Judge Daniel also ordered him to pay over $870,000 in resti

Tulsa, OK - Michael Kilpatrick, Judy Nixon, Martha Ann Garrison, Roy E. Garrison, Jr. and Jean Marie Daniel sued Midwest Energy Corporation, Martin A. Vaughan, F & M Bank and Trust Company, Hsumy Oil & Gas, Inc., Arkla, inc., Unimark, LLC, M. Gas, Inc., Howard G. Barnett, Midwest Energy Company, Inc., Midwest Partners Limited Partnership, Martin Vaughan Trust and John Stephen Swab on conversion th

Venus Minsal appeals her divorce decree, arguing the trial court erred in dividing the community estate and by requiring her to sell her home, failing to recognize her reimbursement claims, and not making findings of fact and conclusions of law. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
Minsal and Garcia were common law spouses who moved to Texas from Florida in 2005. Minsal started her own salon where she wo

N.D. appeals the trial court’s order terminating her parental rights to her children,
L.D. and L.M.D, following a bench trial.1 N.D. challenges the factual and legal sufficiency of the
evidence to support the trial court’s findings as to the statutory predicate grounds and the children’s
best interest. Because we conclude that the evidence was legally and factually sufficient, we

Appellant Ram’s Gate Winery, LLC (Ram’s Gate) bought a property in Sonoma County from respondents Joseph G. and Genevieve Roche (the Roches) upon which it intended to build a new winery. The sellers had agreed in the “Purchase and Sale Agreement” (Purchase Agreement) to disclose facts having a “material effect on the value of the ownership or use of the Property,” including geological

The decedent, Gilbert Paul, retained attorney Richard Patton to draft an amendment to his revocable living trust. The decedent signed the “Trust Amendment,” which, as drafted by Patton, named the decedent’s wife, Helen, and his children, Stephen Paul, David Paul, Alan Paul, and Nancy Dybdahl as beneficiaries. Stephen and David Paul also are the successor trustees of the trust. Following the

Defendant-Appellant Nationstar Mortgage LLC
(Nationstar) appeals from the district court’s order granting
Plaintiff-Appellee Laura Zamora Jordan’s (Jordan) motion to
remand this class action proceeding to state court because its
removal was untimely under 28 U.S.C. § 1446(b). Section
1446(b)(1) permits defendants to remove state-court actions
to federal court within th

"There are no free houses." These are the words of the bankruptcy judge who allowed the instant home foreclosure to go forward. It rejected appellant's theory of "wrongful foreclosure." Thereafter, the same theory was rejected in an unlawful detainer proceeding. Undeterred, appellant F. Wood Boyce sued his lender for "wrongful foreclosure" because the $1.155 million deed of trust was placed in a m

SALT LAKE CITY, UT - Nathan Whitney Drage, age 56, a Salt Lake City attorney, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to impair and impede the IRS and three counts of willful failure to file a tax return, following a three-week trial in federal court in Salt Lake City. The case was investigated by special agents of IRS Investigation. The SEC and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA

SAN DIEGO – Daniel Deaibes pleaded guilty today to participating in a scheme to steal title to Southern California homes, and then to “sell” the properties to unsuspecting buyers – who later learned they had actually purchased nothing.

According to his plea agreement, between September 2012 and November 2014, when Deaibes and two alleged co-conspirators were indicted and arrested,

PLANO, Texas – Six defendants have been sentenced for their roles in a mortgage fraud conspiracy. The sentencing hearings were held before U.S. District Judge Marcia Crone.

Debra Rush-Santens, 42, of Plano, pleaded guilty on Oct.4, 2012, and was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison on Mar. 12, 2015, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of 6,215,087.47.

Casey Irons,

DALLAS, TX — A Cedar Hill, Texas man, who was convicted at trial on various federal felony offenses stemming from an identity (ID) theft conspiracy he ran in the metroplex from October 2009 to July 2013, was sentenced.
Anthony Minor, 28, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 16 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $88,131 in restitution. A federal jury convicted Minor

Appellant, Arbor Windsor Court, Ltd. (Arbor), appeals the trial court’s judgment following a jury verdict. Specifically, in two main issues, Arbor contends the trial court erred in rendering a take-nothing judgment on its breach of contract claims against Weekley Homes, LP (Weekley). Weekley also asserts two conditional cross-points in support of the trial court’s judgment. We affirm.
I. B

An attorney advised his client to make loans both to his law firm and to a business from which he received a commission for the referral. The attorney did not make a written disclosure or advise his client to seek independent legal advice, both of which are required by the rules of professional responsibility when entering a self-interested business transaction with a client. The loans were never

A lender who lends money used to purchase a parcel of property and who holds a junior lien on that property cannot sue the borrower personally for the loan balance if the senior lienholder who also contributed to the purchase of the property forecloses on the property but does not collect enough from the foreclosure sale to pay off the junior lienholder. (Former Code Civ. Proc., § 580b, enacted b

PENSACOLA, FL – Michael “Sean” Davis, 43, of Crestview, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bank and mail fraud, money laundering, making false statements to a federally insured institution, and fraudulently benefitting from a loan by a federally insured institution. The plea was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.

Between Janu

The defendants appeal a final judgment of foreclosure entered after the trial court granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment. We reverse because a genuine issue of material fact remains as to whether the plaintiff had standing at the inception of the lawsuit.
The standard of review of an order granting summary judgment is de novo. Fla. Atl. Univ. Bd. of Trs. v. Lindsey, 50 So. 3d

Scott P. Russell, as Property Appraiser of Monroe County, Florida, appeals a
judgment holding that certain properties were not subject to ad valorem taxes for
the years 2008 through 2013. The properties are five military housing complexes
serving the Naval Air Station at Key West. The housing complexes are being
improved and operated pursuant to a public-private partnership between

Angelica Garza Duque sued Wells Fargo, N.A., seeking to enforce a consent judgment to which she is not a party and prevent foreclosure on her home. The parties each filed a traditional motion for summary judgment. The trial court granted Wells Fargo’s motion and denied Duque’s motion. Duque appeals. We
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hold that Duque lacks standing to enforce the consent judgment and affirm the judg