Consumer Finance Litigation

On April 29, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an interpretive rule allowing certain consumers to modify to waive certain waiting periods required under the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) and the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA). Per the CFPB, this interpretive rule is intended to ease the way for consumers with urgent financial needs to obtain access to mortgage credit more quickly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ordinarily, the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) Rule imposes certain disclosure requirements and waiting periods ...

It's finally here. Over the weekend, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) long awaited and oft delayed integration of the disclosures required by the Federal Truth in Lending Act (TILA) and Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) known as the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure or "TRID" for short, became effective. TRID applies to most closed-end consumer credit transactions secured by real property. Specifically, TRID applies to those who did not close on their loans, or who applied for a loan, on or after Saturday October 3, 2015. For those covered, TRID means ...

The long heralded TILA/RESPA Integrated Disclosures (TRID) are coming, and they are already causing some headaches in the real estate market. Congress provided for the new disclosures in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank). The TRID disclosures are designed to improve the existing disclosure process for mortgage lending and real estate closings by consolidating the old Truth in Lending Disclosure Statement (TILA), HUD-1 Settlement Statement (HUD-1), and Good Faith Estimate (GFE) into two new forms called a "Loan Estimate ...