Neither the Credit Services Organizations Act, Mortgage Rescue Protection Fraud Act, Home Loan Practices Act, nor Deceptive Consumer Sales Act provides an exemption for law firms.
Civil
Gill v. Gill, 20A03-1607-DR-1569, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., March 22, 2017).
The statutory authority allowing a trial court to order a divorced parent to contribute to his child’s post-secondary educational expenses is constitutional.
McCullough v. CitiMortgage, Inc., No. 71S03-1605-MF-272, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind., March 14, 2017).
Unrepresented litigants failed to understand that bankruptcy discharged them from in personam liability, but that their in rem liability for the mortgage remained. Summary judgment on the mortgage foreclosure was properly granted.
Magic Circle Corp. v. Crowe Horwath, LLP, No. 71A03-1607-PL-1520, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., March 8, 2017).
The economic loss rule does not have the effect of barring an accountant malpractice claim at tort.
Pilkington v. Pilkington, No. 18A02-1605-PL-1086, __ N.E.3d __ (Ind. Ct. App., March 2, 2017).
Trial court had subject matter jurisdiction to decide whether beneficiary interest in the trust was extinguished by bankruptcy.