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DEFENDANT PRESENTED SUFFICIENT PROOF SHE DID NOT LIVE AT THE ADDRESS WHERE THE FORECLOSURE COMPLAINT WAS SERVED TO WARRANT A HEARING; THERE WAS NO SHOWING THAT HER FAILURE TO UPDATE HER ADDRESS WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES WAS TO PREVENT SERVICE (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiff’s motion to enter a default judgment in this foreclosure action should not have been granted without first holding a hearing on defendant’s claim she was never served with the complaint. The defendant presented proof, including a lease, demonstrating she did not live at the address where service was made. The fact that defendant had not updated her address with the Department of Motor Vehicles did preclude defendant from demonstrating she lived at a different address because there was no evidence of a deliberate misrepresentation to prevent service:

… [T]he defendant successfully rebutted the process servers’ affidavits through her specific averments that, at the time of each purported service, neither the New York Avenue address, nor the subject premises, was her residence, actual dwelling place, or usual place of abode … . Rather, the defendant averred that at the time of each purported service, she resided at an address on Albany Avenue in Brooklyn. The defendant annexed to her affidavit her lease for the Albany Avenue premises covering the period from January 25, 2014, through January 31, 2015, money orders made payable to the Albany Avenue landlord within the lease period, the defendant’s 2015 W-2 bearing the Albany Avenue address, utility bills during the lease period bearing the Albany Avenue address, and bank statements during the lease period bearing the Albany Avenue address. These records, in conjunction with the defendant’s sworn statements, are evidence that the defendant did not reside at the locations where process was served, and were sufficient to warrant a hearing … . Nationstar Mtge., LLC v Esdelle, 2020 NY Slip Op 04956, Second Dept 9-16-20

 

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