Legal Aid Rarely Used in Foreclosure Cases

Pierre Morel, a Queens homeowner with $245,000 in mortgage debt, keeps his stretch-marked leather briefcase close at hand. The legal advisers at the Foreclosure Prevention Court Clinic in central Jamaica tell him to. Their flyers for homeowners say in capital letters: “BRING ALL YOUR DOCUMENTS.”

So, Morel, a 51-year-old Haitian immigrant, takes the advice literally. His bag, pregnant with paperwork, went with him to the clinic’s legal aid session last Friday. And for now, the advice he got about its contents, piecemeal though it was, may be the only thing standing between him and foreclosure. Read more about foreclosure prevention

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