Nationstar Mortgage, LLC v. Avella

In an action to foreclose a mortgage, the defendant Marjorie Avella appeals, as limited by her brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Lefkowitz, J.), dated June 25, 2015, as denied that branch of her cross motion which was to dismiss the complaint for lack of standing.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

In October 2013, the plaintiff commenced this action to foreclose a mortgage. The defendant Marjorie Avella (hereinafter the defendant) failed to timely appear or answer the complaint (see CPLR 320 [a]). Thereafter, in…