Can a Mediation Save your Home from Foreclosure?
Emil Fleysher
March 3, 2011
In 2009, Florida Supreme Court issued an order mandating foreclosure mediation for all residential homesteaded properties. In other words, upon filing a foreclosure action on a primary residence, the banks now have to attend mediation with the borrower. This is before the case can proceed, or at least provide the borrower with the option. Under this order, borrowers have the right to ask their lenders for a “plaintiff’s disclosure” before