Foreclosure Appeal Lawyer St. Petersburg
Foreclosure Judgment Entered? Talk Through an Appeal Before the Sale
Speak Directly With Matt Weidner Today in a free same-day evaluation of your foreclosure judgment and appeal options
- Talk through your judgment with Matt Weidner, a lawyer for 25+ years
- We'll line up your 30-day appeal deadline with your sale date
- We'll explain how a stay of the sale is requested
- We'll go over what an appeal could challenge in your case
- We'll cover other options if an appeal does not fit
- No cost, no pressure and no commitment to hire us
Free reviews are offered at our discretion and are not guaranteed, and a personal review by Matt Weidner, including same-day timing, is subject to case type and availability.
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Why Choose Us?
A final judgment of foreclosure starts two clocks at once. Florida law has the court set the sale for 20 to 35 days after the judgment unless the foreclosing party agrees to a later date, and the appellate rules give you 30 days from rendition to file a notice of appeal. Those windows overlap, so the decision about a foreclosure appeal and the plan for the sale date have to be made together.
Matt Weidner knows foreclosure from the homeowner’s side of the courtroom, and he often works with people directly, so you have the chance to talk with an experienced lawyer from the start. In the free evaluation he can walk through what the judgment says, what happened in the case before it, and whether an appeal, a stay request or another route is worth your time and money. The goal is a clear plan for the days you have left.
If your sale date is already on the calendar, send us the judgment today.
How It Works
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get your free same-day evaluation and action plan
Submit the form above or give us a call to get started. People find our free evaluations and action plans extremely valuable.
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discuss your options With Matt so you know exactly how to proceed
Matt will go over all of your options with you so that you know exactly what to do. No more confusion!
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Get More Foreclosure Appeal Help If Needed
With over 25 years in Florida courts, Matt can help after your evaluation with the notice of appeal, a stay request and the appeal itself.
Free evaluations and action plans are offered at our discretion, depend on case type and availability, and are not guaranteed, including a personal review by Matt Weidner. Submitting a form or contacting the firm does not create an attorney-client relationship or guarantee any outcome.
Meet Matt Weidner and the Weidner Law Team
Matt Weidner has been licensed in Florida since 1999, and foreclosure defense is one of the areas he focuses on. After the 2008 financial crisis he represented hundreds of Florida homeowners facing foreclosure, work the Tampa Bay Times covered, and he was interviewed for George Packer’s book The Unwinding. He is admitted to all Florida state courts and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Litigation – Real Estate.
Matt often works directly with the homeowners he represents. Associate attorney Jason M. Kral, who works with him at our St. Petersburg office, brings experience in real estate litigation and complex civil litigation, the kind of work a contested foreclosure can call for.
Our Foreclosure Appeal Services
A foreclosure appeal starts with the final judgment and the sale date, and it can involve a stay request in the trial court before the appeal is briefed. We handle each step, along with the foreclosure defense and real estate work around it.
- Foreclosure judgment reviews
- Notices of appeal
- Motions to stay a sale
- Foreclosure appeal briefs
- Answering a lender's appeal
- Foreclosure defense in circuit court
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Who we Help
You may have just received a final judgment of foreclosure with a sale date set, or you may have won in the circuit court and then received the lender’s notice of appeal. In both cases the time to decide is short, and these are the people we help.
- Homeowners with a final judgment
- Homeowners who defended themselves
- Condo and HOA owners
- Homeowners whose lender appealed
- Heirs of a home in foreclosure
- Owners of rental property
Frequently Asked Questions
In most cases, 30 days from rendition, which is generally when the signed final judgment is filed with the clerk. A timely, authorized motion such as a motion for rehearing can delay rendition. The notice of appeal goes to the circuit court clerk in Pinellas County, so call us the day the judgment is entered.
Not on its own. Under Florida’s appellate rules, a party who wants a judgment stayed during an appeal generally has to ask the trial court first, and the court can require a bond, other conditions, or both. Call us early so there is time to decide whether to ask.
Yes. When the firm offers a foreclosure appeal evaluation, there is no fee and no obligation to hire Weidner Law. The point is to find out, before you spend money on an appeal, whether your judgment gives you something worth raising in the Second District.
Bring the final judgment of foreclosure, any notice showing the sale date, and anything you or the lender filed after the judgment. If the lender has filed a notice of appeal, bring that too. Your mortgage papers and the case docket help, but do not wait on them to call.
Reviews
A Foreclosure Appeal Lawyer Grounded in Foreclosure Defense
For Weidner Law, a foreclosure appeal turns on the record built in the circuit court: the pleadings, the evidence the lender offered, the objections raised at the time and the wording of the final judgment. The appellate court decides the appeal on that record, so it matters that the lawyer reading it knows how Florida foreclosure cases are litigated from the first filing.
That is what Matt Weidner brings as a foreclosure appeal lawyer in St. Petersburg. He has trained attorneys across the U.S. in foreclosure defense, including the 2012 and 2013 National Online Foreclosure Defense Trainings, and his practice covers foreclosure defense alongside general litigation. When you bring Weidner Law a foreclosure judgment, Matt, a Florida lawyer of more than 25 years, can review it with both the trial and the appeal in mind.
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A St. Petersburg Firm for Pinellas County Foreclosure Appeals
A foreclosure on a home in St. Petersburg, Pinellas Park, Largo, Clearwater or anywhere else in Pinellas County is decided in the courts of the Sixth Judicial Circuit, and an appeal from that judgment goes to the Second District Court of Appeal, which Florida law headquarters in Pinellas County. Weidner Law handles foreclosure appeals from its office at 856 2nd Ave N in St. Petersburg, in the same county where your case was decided.
That matters when a sale date and an appeal deadline are running at once. The St. Petersburg office is open Monday to Friday from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm and Saturday from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, so a Pinellas County homeowner who receives a final judgment late in the week can still call the office on Saturday.
Weidner Law Helps Whether You Lost or the Lender Appealed
As a foreclosure appeal lawyer in St. Petersburg, Matt Weidner can help homeowners on either side of the appeal. One homeowner has a final judgment and a sale date and wants to know whether the ruling can be challenged. Another won in the circuit court, then received a notice of appeal from the lender, and now needs to protect that result in the Second District Court of Appeal.
Matt’s foreclosure defense work is useful in both positions. Knowing how a foreclosure case is tried helps in judging whether a judgment can be challenged, and in answering a lender who argues the trial court got it wrong. If you are defending a win, the free evaluation is a chance to go over what the lender’s appeal means for you while it is pending and how Weidner Law can respond to it.
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