From the Florida Bar News September 15, 2011 By Gary Blankenship, Esquire
The backlog of foreclosure cases in Florida courts has been reduced by more than 40 percent in the past year, due to both stepped-up efforts by the courts and from cases being dismissed or dropped by lenders. But nearly a quarter of the state’s properties with mortgages are either in foreclosure or behind on payments. Statistics from the Office of the State Courts Administratorshow that 201,524 foreclosure cases were disposed last year, with 96,630 being handled by summary and final judgments and 104,126 being dismissed. Most of those dismissed cases could later be refiled. As of June 30, the end of the 2010-11 fiscal year, 260,815 of the foreclosure cases pending at the start of the year remained in the court system. They were joined by around 117,000 fresh cases filed during the year — a lower number than expected because many lenders self-imposed a moratorium after problems surfaced with their paperwork.
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