Reminder Of Indiana's View Of MERS

By John D. Waller, Wooden McLaughlin

What is Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS)?  More specifically, what does mortgage language identifying MERS “as nominee” mean?  The Indiana Supreme Court in Citimortgage v. Barabas, 2012 Ind. LEXIS 802 (Ind. 2012) dealt with those and other questions surrounding the role of MERS in the foreclosure world about which I wrote following the Indiana Court of Appeals' opinion, which the Supreme Court ultimately reversed. 

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