Foreclosure Attorney Exposes Flaw in Florida Foreclosure Process

Roy Oppenheim helps families save their homes and prevent financial ruin by demanding lenders follow due process in Florida foreclosures

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Fort Lauderdale, FL - January 16, 2009 - Could we be on the verge of a second Shay's Rebellion with a snag in Florida foreclosure law? Attorney Roy Oppenheim, a leading residential foreclosure attorney asks banks to show true ownership.

With nearly one in ten families now delinquent or in foreclosure, and 95 percent of all foreclosures going unrepresented by counsel, Oppenheim Pilelsky, a boutique law firm focusing in Florida foreclosure law, is attempting to avert a second Shays' Rebellion. In 1786 poor farmers in Western Massachusetts, angered by crushing debt and taxes, rose up in arms against creditors. The farmers were upset because they perceived the legal process as unfair.

Oppenheim is exposing a fundamental flaw in the judicial process of foreclosure proceedings that may be causing thousands of families to unnecessarily or prematurely lose their homes. The firm focusing in Florida foreclosure law, along with other law firms and the Florida Bar, is blowing the whistle with South Florida courts and working to relieve the stress of foreclosure for troubled homeowners.

"Many times, banks can't show true ownership of the mortgage," said Roy Oppenheim, one member of the husband-wife legal team of Oppenheim Pilesky, P.A practicing in Florida foreclosure law. "Homeowners have a fundamental right for lenders to prove ownership of the loan on which they are foreclosing. Often, the banks have lost their documentation, sold the loans, or turned them into investment vehicles - and can no longer demonstrate ownership."

Despite the lack of this proof, Oppenheim said banks are successfully foreclosing on South Florida homes because most distressed borrowers can't afford an attorney to defend them. In the Florida judicial system, overwhelmed with foreclosure filings, the system is not equipped to mandate lenders to prove ownership such as other courts do in Ohio and New Jersey.

"There is going to be a rebellion, of sorts, if homeowners find out banks have violated their constitutional rights in terms of due process," Oppenheim said. "We are here to help families defend their rights and save their homes."

About Oppenheim Pilelsky, P.A.

Founded more than nineteen years ago by a husband and wife legal team, Oppenheim Pilelsky, PA is uniquely positioned as one of Florida's leading boutique law firms, focusing in Florida foreclosure law. Serving the greater Fort Lauderdale, Florida-area and serving high-profile national, international and local clients, the firm is proud to have the highest (A-V) rating, conferred by Martindale Hubbell® Law Directory - the most respected directory of lawyers and law firms in the United States.

For more information about Roy Oppenheim and Oppenheim Pilelsky visit: http://www.oppenheimlaw.com or call 954.384.6114.

Oppenheim Pilelsky is located at 2500 Weston Rd, Ste 404 in Weston, FL 33331.