Thursday, March 13, 2025

Legal Briefs

March 2017 Legal Briefs

  •  Blunder Report
    • A Visit to the Bank of Blunders (Operations)
    • A Visit to the Bank of Blunders (Lending)
  • Labor’s Fiduciary Rule Likely Delayed

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February 2017 Legal Briefs

  • Bank of Blunders 2017
    • A Visit to the Bank of Blunders (Operations)
    • A Visit to the Bank of Blunders (Lending)
  • Updated Lobby Signage
  • Deregulation?
  • Penalty Caps Increasing, Again

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December 2016 Legal Briefs

  • DOL’s Overtime Rule Blocked
  • Reg Z, Reg M Thresholds
  • Form W-9
  • Questions & Answers
    • Who can release a mortgage
    • Must the spouse sign the mortgage secured by commercial real estate?
    • Waiver of homestead
    • Recitation of marital statuts
    • Purchase, non-borrowing spouse not in title
    • Name discrepancy

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October 2016 Legal Briefs

  • 2016 Oklahoma Statutory Amendments
    • Banking Code
    • Savings and Loan Code
    • Garnishments
    • Small Estate Affidavit – Probate Code
    • Guardian and Ward
    • Eminent Domain, Mortgagee Liability
  • Are Your Forms Files Up to Date?
    • Flood
    • URLA

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July 2016 Legal Briefs

  • Bureau to implement GLBA privacy notice relief
  • Everyone’s tweaking their CMPs
  • Using enforcement actions
  • "Loans” to counties, schools, and municipalities

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June 2016 Legal Briefs

  • Is it a refi?
  • U3C: No change in late fee, dollar amounts
  • Operational Odds and Ends
  • Updated plans from the Bureau
  • Sudden Overtime Changes

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May 2016 Legal Briefs

  • Campaign committees, PACS & political party accounts
  • Confidentiality and TRID Closing Disclosures
  • More “Gotcha Fun”
    • Partnership agreements
    • Keeping a copy of a Will

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April 2016 Legal Briefs

  • Landscape for Balloon QMs has changed
  • Corporations and LLCs – Part II
  • SCRA amendment enacted
  • Title 50 gets an “app-endectomy”
  • Guarantors not “applicants” under ECOA

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February 2016 Legal Briefs

  • ‘Tis the (tax refund) season
  • Garnishment gotchas
  • Old POD designations
  • MLA – Clarity
  • You have questions, we have answers
    • Requests for customer infomration from other states
    • Purchase money mortgage, spouse not on deed
    • Safe deposit boxes
    • Trust as POD
    • Banning guns on premises

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