HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4582        FILED ON: 8/26/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 4278

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act requiring judicial approval of foreclosures of residential mortgages in the city of Brockton ..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION I. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, all foreclosures of residential mortgages on 1-4 family owner-occupied property located in the city of Brockton can only be initiated by the filing of a foreclosure complaint in the superior court of Plymouth county.  A residential mortgagor may raise any and all available claims and defenses to the foreclosure and to the contract for the underlying mortgage loan, in law and in equity. The court shall have the authority to grant any appropriate relief'. Mortgagors shall have a right of redemption for 6 months after the entry of judgment.