The Mortgage-Follows-the-Note Rule – Part IV of IV

By James M. Davis, Staff Attorney Office of the Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Trustee, Nashville, TN
(Reprinted from Norton Bankruptcy Law Adviser, September 2013, with permission. Copyright © 2013 Thomson Reuters/West. For more information about this publication please visit http://legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com/.)

IV. The Mortgage-Follows-the-Note Rule and the Separation of Notes and Mortgages

The mortgage-follows-the-note rule is also relevant to issues concerning the potential separation of mortgages from the underlying notes. Again, the rule provides some assistance to the . . .

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