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Civil Union Act
06/28/2011 - 12:22pm
PA 96-1513 (SB 1716), Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act, 750 ILCS 75/1–90 (2011), Effective Date: June 1, 2011
Illinois enacted new legislation that legalizes civil unions...
Civil Unions: Impact on Real Estate
06/28/2011 - 12:14pm
The Impact of Civil Unions on Real Estate
The Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act (Civil Union Act or Act), 750 ILCS 75/1, et seq., was signed into law on January 31, 2011, by...
Mortgage Fraud Highest in Certain Illinois Zip Codes
06/28/2011 - 11:47am
ATG has received a notice from the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation that states that the following Chicago-area zip codes fall in the top twenty zip codes in the nation for fraud...
Judgment and Lien Basics
06/22/2011 - 11:37am
Originally published in the December 2008 issue of the ATG Casenotes and Underwriters' Bulletin
It is important to make sure that a name search is done for all the parties that could have judgment...
Omitted Mortgagor - Whoever Owns Property Must Unconditionally Execute the Mortgage
05/13/2011 - 5:44pm
Last published in the March 2010 ATG Casenotes and Underwriters' Bulletin
As the number of foreclosures has increased, the number of claims that ATG has received because there is an omitted mortgagor...
Illinois Mortgage Foreclosures; IAPLD Procedural Update
04/11/2011 - 12:28pm
Circuit Court Judge Halts Fisher and Shapiro Foreclosures
Altered Documents Affect More than 1700 Cook County Foreclosures
Dear ATG Agent:
A circuit court in Cook County, Illinois, recently...
Authority to Conduct Non-ATG Closings
01/13/2011 - 8:28am
Many members have asked about whether they can obtain CPLs for closings they conduct where ATG is not writing title insurance. ATG does not issue CPLs for any transactions where ATG is not insuring...
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