Can These Mortgages Be Saved?

ON Christmas Eve two years ago, as Shannon Rivas-Spivey wrapped gifts for her two young sons, she was interrupted by a knock at her door. Standing on her front steps in Somers Point, N.J., was a man from the Atlantic County sheriff’s office, delivering foreclosure papers on the three-bedroom home that she and her fiancé, Harold Spivey, had owned for almost 10 years. The visit was unwelcome, but not a surprise....