Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. v. Sotern

WHATLEY, Judge.

Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. challenges the final judgment declaring its mortgage on property once owned by Dolores Sotern to be invalid. We reverse.

In November 2005, Mrs. Sotern’s husband was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. He died two months later. Dur*619ing those two months, the Soterns’ longtime friend Charles Landwer visited them in their Florida home four or five times. The Soterns first met Landwer when he prepared their tax returns for free at a senior center in the Illinois town where they owned a home at the time. Landwer prepared their returns for several years…