Duration of valid notice. - A valid notice of lis pendens, filed pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 44-14-610, remains effective as constructive notice of the action referred to therein only until a final judgment has been entered in the action and the time for appeal therefrom has expired.
Once the complaint is filed, it enters a Lis pendens, meaning a suit is pending. The lender becomes the plaintiff, and the debtor becomes the defendant in the court record. The case receives a docket number. The plaintiff must serve the defendant with the foreclosure complaint.
File a request with the court to remove the lis pendens. Provide the legal reasons the lis pendens is improper, offering proof, for example, that the lis pendens affects real estate that is not connected to the litigation. If the lawsuit is frivolous and merely intended to harass the property owner, offer proof.
The Lis Pendens is a public notification that the property is being foreclosed upon. If the homeowner attempts to sell the property or get a second mortgage, the title search will reveal the Lis Pendens and notify any interested party that the property's title is in question due to the pending foreclosure.
Under New Jersey law, there is a litigation privilege that is an absolute privilege to any communication: “(1) made in judicial or quasi-judicial proceedings; (2) by litigants or other participants authorized by law; (3) to achieve the objects of the litigation; and (4) that have some connection or logical relation to ...
A notice of lis pendens must be filed in the office of the clerk of the superior court of the county where the real property is situated in a book kept for such purposes and must contain (1) a notice of the institution of the action, (2) the names of the parties, (3) the time of the institution of the action, (4) the ...
No notice of lis pendens shall be effective after five years from the date of its filing.