Posts Tagged: reverse mortgages

The Fine Print of Reverse Mortgages

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Children of elderly borrowers are now learning how their parents’ reverse mortgages are threatening their own inheritances. Questions: 1. Under federal rules for reverse mortgages, what options are survivors suppose to be offered when their parents die? 2. All reverse mortgages require the borrower to pay into a federal insurance fund each month. What is… Read more »

Advising an Elderly Client

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Three surviving spouses of reverse mortgage borrowers filed a lawsuit today against the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), alleging that the agency had abandoned long-established federal rules and violated protections for surviving spouses, with the result that the three individuals are now facing imminent foreclosure and eviction from their homes. The case will… Read more »