To respond to the Mortgage Foreclosure Summons, you actually must respond to the ``Complaint'' which was attached to the Summons. You file a response called an ``Answer'' that responds - paragraph by paragraph - to the claims about you in the Complaint. I have looked at the website for the St.
You must file the Answer with the Clerk of Courts. Your Answer is due 28 calendar days after you got the Summons and Complaint by Once foreclosure case is filed against you in court, you are a defendant in the lawsuit and will receive a copy of the complaint. You have 28 days to respond.
Generally, federal law prohibits a lender from starting foreclosure until the borrower is more than 120 days past due.
The actual amount of time that it takes for a foreclosure to start is up to the lender, but most lenders are going to wait at least 90 days -— or the time it takes for three missed payments to add up -— before they start the lawsuit.
Even if you don't contest the foreclosure action, the sale usually won't occur until around a month after the judge issues a foreclosure order. So you'll probably have a couple of months from the first notice of the case to the date the court orders the sale.