{"id":136882,"date":"2026-09-25T15:36:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/michigan-family-lost-194400-home-over-2242-tax-bill-supreme-court-steps-in\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T15:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:36:36","slug":"michigan-family-lost-194400-home-over-2242-tax-bill-supreme-court-steps-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/michigan-family-lost-194400-home-over-2242-tax-bill-supreme-court-steps-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan family lost $194,400 home over $2,242 tax bill; Supreme Court steps in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Supreme Court has made a landmark decision stating that tax sale compensation must be based on the auction price rather than the assessed value of a property. A family in Michigan, burdened with a $2,241.93 tax debt, faced foreclosure despite their home being valued at $194,400. With the auction yielding only $76,008, the family is rightfully awarded the remaining $73,766.07, reinforcing constitutional guidelines for future tax sales.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Supreme Court has made a landmark decision stating that tax sale compensation must be based on the auction price rather than the assessed value of a property. A family in Michigan, burdened with a $2,241.93 tax debt, faced foreclosure despite their home being valued at $194,400. With the auction yielding only $76,008,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/25\/michigan-family-lost-194400-home-over-2242-tax-bill-supreme-court-steps-in\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Michigan family lost $194,400 home over $2,242 tax bill; Supreme Court steps in<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":136883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}