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Service members | Foreclosures for unpaid homeowner association dues?

As if family law attorneys don't have enough to worry about in taking care of their military clients--and as if our service members don't have enough to worry about--here's a story from National Public Radio ["NPR"] that would not be broadcast if we were talking about just one family. NPR's show All things Considered broadcast on June 29, 2010 a story about Capt. Mike Clauer. Clauer was serving in Iraq last year as company commander of an Army National Guard unit assigned to escort convoys. While he and his men were in danger, his wife was calling to say that their house had been foreclosed upon by the homeowner's association for failure to pay a few hundred dollars in annual dues. Their $300,000 home, owned outright, was sold for a few thousand. Clauer was halfway through his deployment when he got a bolt from the blue ? a frantic phone call from his wife, May, back in Texas. "She was bawling on the phone and was telling me that the HOA [homeowners association] had foreclosed on our house, and it was sold," he says. "And I couldn't believe that could even happen." Clauer had a hard time understanding what his wife was saying. His $300,000 house was already completely paid for. Could it be possible that they could lose it?

Full post as published by Updates in Michigan Family Law on July 04, 2010 (boomark / email).