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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Chaparral Pro",serif">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Chaparral Pro",serif">You may recall two months ago I had a loan servicer file a creditor’s claim in husband’s probate proceeding even though wife survived, is still living in the home, and continued to pay the
mortgage. At the time, the loan servicer’s attorney told me that they filed the claim “because we’ve had issues in the past with remedies being waived when a secured creditor did not [file a claim]” even though they would consider the loan current if wife
continued to pay. As suggested by this list, I filed a partial rejection of the creditor’s claim, essentially stating that to the extent the claim simply recognized the existence of the mortgage and wife’s ongoing obligations under it, the claim was allowed,
but it was denied in all other respects. That was the end of it – until my client today received an invoice from the loan servicer claiming $684 in attorney’s fees relating to the filing of the creditor’s claim.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Chaparral Pro",serif">Has anybody ever encountered that before? How to respond? I don’t feel it was appropriate for the loan servicer to file a creditor’s claim in the first instance, and certainly not to now invoice
my client for their attorney’s fees, but I also don’t want to end up running the bill up higher on both sides if that will ultimately prove useless.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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