Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issues new rules for mortgage servicing

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (thanks, Senator Warren!) issued new rules for mortgage servicers yesterday. The good news: they're good rules. The bad news: they don't kick in until January 10, 2014. [Sad face].

Read more about the rules and the press coverage.

Even though the rules don't apply until 2014, I think that Kentucky attorneys defending homeowners facing foreclosure can consider using the rules (and the abusive, reckless, callous, obnoxious behavior of servicers that made these rules necessary) in briefs sooner rather than later. They establish an industry standard. There's good language in the Background section of the "Summary of the final mortgage servicing rules".