N.J.S. § 2A:50-56.4 Certification of Diligent Inquiry

• Library: New Jersey Permanent Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through L. 2023, c. 171.
• Year: 2023
• Citation: N.J.S. § 2A:50-56.4

a. In addition to any other requirements under law, regulation or court rule, in all residential mortgage foreclosure actions, an attorney filing a foreclosure complaint shall include a certification of diligent inquiry. The certification of diligent inquiry shall certify:

(1) that the attorney has communicated with an employee or employees of the plaintiff or of the plaintiff's mortgage loan servicer who:

(a) personally reviewed the complaint and confirmed the accuracy of its content, based on business records kept in the regular course of business by the plaintiff or the plaintiff's mortgage loan servicer, and who, if employed by the plaintiff's mortgage loan servicer, identified the relationship between the mortgage loan servicer and the plaintiff; and

(b) confirmed the authority of the mortgage loan servicer to act on behalf of the plaintiff;

(2) the names and titles, and the responsibilities in those titles, of the plaintiff's or plaintiff's mortgage loan servicer's employees with whom the attorney communicated pursuant to paragraph (1) of this section and the date and mode of communication employed to contact them;