Summary: Mortgage priority cannot be adjudicated unless the court acquired personal jurisdiction over the primary lender through proper service of process.
In Illinois, a judgment from an Illinois state court, or a federal court located in Illinois, becomes a lien on real property only after a transcript, certified copy, or memorandum of judgment is...
In Illinois, a mortgage lien executed by less than all joint tenants does not sever joint tenancy, and if the joint tenant who executed the mortgage dies, then the surviving tenant becomes sole...