300 FORECLOSURE CASES IN 3 DAYS SCHEDULED IN FLORIDA- 1 JUDGE

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For three days starting Tuesday, January 17, 2012, Seminole County, Florida Chief Circuit Judge Alan Dickey has scheduled 300 foreclosure cases.

“If everybody shows up, I’ll have about 30 seconds a case,” said the judge, who expressed disappointment with the state Legislature’s decision to end funding for retired judges who were helping deal with a growing backlog.

But now — six months after the state ended its $6 million program — foreclosures are on the rise again. A report released last week by real-estate-research company RealtyTrac Inc. showed that the number of houses repossessed by banks last month in Metro Orlando was 1,094 — up 56 percent from November. And the court actions were on the rise for several months preceding that.

So now the state’s courts have fewer judges and more foreclosure cases.

“We’re just pushing the cases through,” said Dickey, adding that he had “no idea” about the size of the foreclosure backlog in Seminole County. During the time when the state paid retired judges $350 a day to hear foreclosure cases, the court circuit for Seminole and Brevard counties cleared all of its related cases. But in the three months since the program’s July 1 demise, the clearance rate dropped to 86 percent.

The news is also not good for homeowners, especially considering that the state also dropped its mandate last month for foreclosure mediation.

“Most of the borrowers — maybe 95 percent — don’t have representation,” said dispute-resolution expert Sandra Upchurch, who administered the state foreclosure mediation in Volusia County courts. “Many made bad decisions, and some loans have legitimate problems. But if borrowers have no lawyers, the cases aren’t being argued. And those cases are going to get opened and closed in 30 seconds, and those buyers don’t have a chance.”

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