For most of these clients, the law does not offer a remedy to prevent the foreclosure, but the law does require the person who buys the house at the foreclosure sale to follow certain procedures before evicting the owner, including giving them notice to move. When “David” and “Rita’s” home was sold in foreclosure, their lender purchased it and decided to bypass the judicial system to take possession. While David and Rita were visiting relatives on Mother’s Day, a neighbor called to tell them that someone was loading all of their belongings onto a moving van. David called the police, but the lender’s agent convinced the officer that David and Rita were trespassers and should be removed from the property. LAET filed suit on their behalf, and the court ordered the lender to allow David and Rita access to the house; but the lender refused to obey the order. After months of litigation, LAET succeeded in forcing the lender to give David and Rita access – and ordered the lender to pay their moving expenses.