CORPUS
CHRISTI —The
Nueces County Commissioners Court approved a contract with two law firms to
file a lawsuit over hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid filing fees.
Attorneys
fees to the law firms — San Antonio-based Watts Guerra Craft and Corpus
Christi-based Hilliard Muñoz Gonzales — won't be paid unless the county is able
to recover the fees. However, the county will be required to reimburse the
firms if they are awarded less than 19 percent of the fees.
In
December, County Attorney Laura Jimenez estimated the uncollected fees related
to the processing of documents at between $400,000 and $800,000. She said
Wednesday the county hasn't finished going through related paperwork and the
estimate could be low.
Dallas
County filed a lawsuit in September accusing Mortgage Electronic Registration
Systems of falsely listing itself as the beneficiary or lender in transactions.
The U.S. District Court recently gave Harris and Brazoria counties permission
to join it. Jimenez told the court Nueces County would file a separate lawsuit.
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