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New Jersey law on residential mortgage foreclosure
Foreclosures filed in New Jersey are to be judicial, meaning the foreclosure filled in this state are to be filled in court against the property owner. Here the court plays a major role by entering into judgment which awards the property to lender or orders for sheriff sale. The time taken to give this judgment is typically from 4 to 6 months.
Usually, foreclosure process begins as the borrower misses the payment due for the month. After 15 days from the due date, the lender sends reminding letter of the due payments and mean while penalty is charged on payment due. After 90 days lender sends a default notice to borrower and files a foreclosure proceedings with court.
New Jersey State requires lender to give written notice to borrower by lender before seeking a judicial assistance on foreclosing a residential property. Before filling a foreclosure the lender must notify the borrower at least 30 day before about his intention to foreclose the underlying property to recover the defaulted loan amount. The notice given to the borrower must advise borrower to seek assistance available form federal and state government agencies or non profit organizations.
New Jersey state law give the borrower 35 days after receiving the summons and complaints to respond and if he does not respond with in the given time, then the lender may seek judicial judgement to foreclose underlying mortgage to recover the defaulted mortgage.
The law of New Jersey give the court an authority to give a judgment of awarding a title of the property to lender or order a sale of property by sheriff sale. After getting an order from court, the sheriff then publishes the sale notice in local newspapers for four consecutive weeks and in a way there is at least one week time before the sheriff sale date.
After sheriff sale, the court awards title of the property to bid winner and orders office of foreclosure to issue a writ possession and advising the sheriff to confiscate any occupants of the property.
As the New Jersey foreclosure is judicial, and then the lender can file deficiency judgment against the borrower if the proceedings of foreclosure are not sufficient to clear off the mortgage. For this lender has to initiate a separate court action for the deficiency judgment against borrower. In case of residential property the amount recovered in this way is limited to difference between the debt on the mortgage and fair market value of the residential property.
In an effort to resolve the foreclosure proceedings, the New Jersey law has introduced a foreclosure mediation program which aims to work out an affordable mortgage payment schedule for the home owner. In this way it tries to reduce the number of foreclosure and help the home owners in saving the home.
In the event of foreclosure, the New Jersey law provides protection to tenants residing in the home to continue to occupy in the event of foreclosure also.
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