{"id":99,"date":"2009-05-01T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mn-bankruptcy.com\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2009-05-01T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T22:21:00","slug":"mortgage-modification-amendment-defeated-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mn-bankruptcy.com\/blog\/mortgage-modification-amendment-defeated-in-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Mortgage Modification Amendment Defeated in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received an email from <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">NACBA<\/span> &#8211; National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Lawyers.  They say that the mortgage modification in Chapter 13 Bankruptcy amendment which <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">NACBA<\/span> was trying to get passed was defeated today in the Senate.  The amendment in <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_2\">question<\/span> was to be part of the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act.<\/p>\n<p>I think that means it&#8217;s totally dead for this session of Congress.  Had it passed, I was going to have to find a class or seminar to attend to learn what all the bill contained as finally passed.  <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_3\">NACBA<\/span> has it&#8217;s convention in Chicago at the end of this month, and I would have had to be sure that I got there.  As it is, I can probably wait till next year without missing anything essential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received an email from NACBA &#8211; National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Lawyers. They say that the mortgage modification in Chapter 13 Bankruptcy amendment which NACBA was trying to get passed was defeated today in the Senate. 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I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mn-bankruptcy.com\/blog\/mortgage-modification-amendment-defeated-in-senate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mortgage Modification Amendment Defeated in Senate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,28,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-13","category-filing-bankruptcy","category-foreclosure"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mortgage Modification Amendment Defeated in Senate - Better Call Dave - Bankrupt MN Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mn-bankruptcy.com\/blog\/mortgage-modification-amendment-defeated-in-senate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mortgage Modification Amendment Defeated in Senate - Better Call Dave - Bankrupt MN Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I just received an email from NACBA &#8211; National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Lawyers. 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