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NON - PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37 REVERSE MORTGAGE SOL UTIONS, INC., IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA Appellee v. JOCELYN GIBSON, KNOWN HEIR O F LILLIAN R. GIBSON, Appellant No. 2856 E DA 201 8

Appeal from the Order Entered August 31 , 201 8 In the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County

Civil Division at No(s): 2015 - 02471 BEFORE: BENDER, P.J.E., KUNSELMAN , J., and STEVENS, P. J. E. * MEMORANDUM BY BENDER, P.J.E.: FILED APRIL 2 4 , 2019 Appellant, Jocelyn Gibson, known heir of Lillian R. Gibson, appeals from the August 31, 2018 order denying her emergency motion to void, set aside, and nullify the sheriff’s sale of the property located at 1607 Reservoir Avenue, Willow Grove, PA (“ the Property ” ). After careful review, we affirm . This matter arises from a complaint in mortgage foreclosure filed by Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc. (“Reverse Mortgag e”) on February 2, 2015, against Appellant. The Property was subsequently sold to Reverse Mortgage at a sheriff’s sale on June 27, 2018. We need not reiterate the history of this case at length herein, as the trial court sufficiently set forth the releva nt facts

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and procedural history in its November 16, 2018 opinion. See Trial Court Opinion, 11/16/18, at 1 - 4. On October 1, 2018, Appellant filed a timely notice of appeal. Herein, Appellant presents the following issue for our review: Whether the Apri l 25, 2018[] filing by [Reverse Mortgage] of a new motion for a postponement of the sheriff [’s] sale for [the Property ] before Judge Bertin of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas as opposed to filing a motion for reconsideration before Judge Moore to remove the requirement that the sheriff [’s] sale be postponed pending dispositions of pending motions was fraud on the court[?] Appellant’s Brief at 8 (unnecessary capitalization omitted) . We have reviewed the certified record, the briefs of the par ties, and the applicable law. Additionally, we have reviewed the thorough opinion of the Honorable Bernard A. Moore of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, entered on November 16, 2018. We conclude that Judge Moore’s well - reasoned opinion accu rately disposes of the issues presented, and we discern no abuse of discretion or error of law. Accordingly, we adopt Judge Moore’s opinion as our own and affirm the order denying Appellant’s motion to void, set aside, and nullify the June 27, 2018 sheriff’s sale. Order affirmed.J - S08002 - 19

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Judgment Entered. Joseph D. Seletyn, Esq. Prothonotary
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