Ibanez ruling in Mass. could have far reaching impact on foreclosures

The issue concerned the banks inability to produce a document chain that showed them as the rightful holder of the note and mortgage with the standing to foreclose.

It involved all of the ingredients and entities that make other in-progress and completed foreclosures potentially suspect including MERS, robo-signing and endorsing in blank. All these terms will be explored at a later time, but for now this is a flowchart of the Antonio Ibanez loan.

The Ibanez Ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: US Bank National Association (as trustee) vs. Antonio Ibanez (1/07/2011)

FORECLOSURE NULLIFIED: Assignment of the mortgage received after the foreclosure.

1. Ibanez executes mortgage with Rose Mortgage Inc.

2. Rose allegedly assigned the mortgage to Option One.

3. Option One then assigned the mortgage to Lehman Brothers.

4. Lehman Brothers allegedly assigned the mortgage to Lehman Brothers Holding.

5. Lehman Brothers Holding packaged the mortgage with 1000 others to be sold as a security.

6. The mortgages were to be placed with Asset Securities Corp. Asset Securities Corp. was then to assign the mortgages to US Bancorp as trustee.

7. In the event of a foreclosure, it was the job of US Bancorp to do so on behalf of the trust and in the interest of the bondholders.

8. To have the court rule in their favor, US Bancorp needed only to show documentation of each link in the chain of assignments. Because they could not do so, the foreclosure was overturned.