How to Plead and Prove Fraud Against the Banks

The pleading and proof requirements for fraud in all circumstances are very rigorous. Knowing now to plead and wording the complaint or defense properly is essential to getting fraud on the table in litigation which by the way opens the door to discovery that might not otherwise be allowed if you are merely defending the foreclosure on other grounds. That said, a successful action for fraud has a high likelihood of achieving a significant verdict for compensatory and potentially punitive damages.  Fraud can be a very effective claim or defense. But it is not an easy claim. Fraud must be both pled and proven clearly and convincingly. Some view the burden of pleading and proof as unfair when compared to a claim for foreclosure which has a burden of proof that requires only that it is more likely than not that the claimant is real and has a real claim entitling the claimant to a remedy. That is a philosophical argument.