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Walk It Through: The Foreclosure Complaint

Mortgage payments missed, a complaint in Superior Court, automatic mediation, and a housing counselor.

After a medical leave, a homeowner in Smyrna falls months behind on the mortgage. Court papers arrive.

Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.

Foreclosure of an owner occupied home. Sheriff sales, surplus proceeds and tenants in a foreclosed building are not worked through here.

A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.

Words this turns on

Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.