Cal. Civ. Code § 2923.6 : Lien — California Civil Code — Obligations — Mortgage — Mortgages In General — Agreement by mortgage servicer to implement loan modification or workout plan Date: 18 Nov 2014 TEXT PDF Current through 2015 Legislative Session (a) The Legislature finds and declares that any duty mortgage servicers may have to maximize net present value under their pooling and servicing agreements is owed to all parties in a loan pool, or to all investors under a pooling and servicing agreement, not to any particular party in the loan pool or investor under a pooling and servicing agreement, and that a mortgage servicer acts in the best interests of all parties to the loan pool or investors in the pooling and servicing agreement if it agrees to or implements a loan modification or workout plan for which both of the following apply: (1) The loan is in payment default, or payment default is reasonably foreseeable. (2) Anticipated recovery under the loan modification or workout plan exceeds the anticipated recovery through foreclosure on a net present value basis. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the mortgage servicer offer the borrower a loan modification or workout plan if such a modification or plan is consistent with its contractual or other authority. (c) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2018. Ca. Civ. Code § 2923.6 Added by Stats 2012 ch 87 (SB 900),s 8, eff. 1/1/2013. Added by Stats 2012 ch 86 (AB 278),s 8, eff. 1/1/2013.