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Loan modification resources

By Cathy Moran

The good folks at the National Consumer Law Center have put together a page of links to various programs and procedures for troubled home loans.

My colleague John Mlnarik has begun a discussion of the Obama Treasury programs announced earlier in  March on www.norcalmortgagemods.com.

Now, we need the Senate to move on S. 61 and judicial mortgage modification.  Speak up at www.nacba.org/TellCongress.

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About Cathy Moran

I'm a veteran bankruptcy lawyer and consumer advocate in California's Silicon Valley. I write, teach, and speak in the hopes of expanding understanding of how bankruptcy can make life better in a family's future.

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