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Note 14 OTHER LIABILITIES | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2012
Other Liabilities Disclosure [Text Block] | Note 14 OTHER LIABILITIES Other liabilities were comprised of the following at December 31:
|  | March 31, 2012 |  |  | December 31, 2011 |
Accrued expenses (1) |  | $ | 44,718 |  |  | $ | 53,516 |
Payable to servicing and subservicing investors (2) |  |  | 31,470 |  |  |  | 28,824 |
Checks held for escheat |  |  | 22,974 |  |  |  | 24,687 |
Derivatives, at fair value (3) |  |  | 15,556 |  |  |  | 20,276 |
Payable to HLSS (4) |  |  | 12,384 |  |  |  | — |
Servicing liabilities (5) |  |  | 8,744 |  |  |  | 9,662 |
Payable to Altisource (4) |  |  | 5,579 |  |  |  | 4,274 |
Liability for selected tax items |  |  | 4,607 |  |  |  | 4,524 |
Accrued interest payable |  |  | 2,497 |  |  |  | 4,140 |
Other |  |  | 11,287 |  |  |  | 8,746 |
|  | $ | 159,816 |  |  | $ | 158,649 |
(1) | As disclosed in Note 3, accrued expenses include lease termination liabilities of $9,463 and $5,287 at March 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively, related to our closure of Litton and HomEq facilities. Accrued expenses also include accruals for litigation of $5,127 and $5,550 at March 31, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively.
(2) | The balance represents amounts due to investors in connection with loans we service under servicing and subservicing agreements.
(3) | See Note 15 for additional information regarding derivatives.
(4) | See Note 20 for additional information regarding transactions with HLSS and Altisource.
(5) | We recognize a servicing liability for those agreements that are not expected to compensate us adequately for performing the servicing. During the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011, amortization of servicing liabilities exceeded the amount of charges we recognized to increase servicing liability obligations by $918 and $701, respectively. Amortization of mortgage servicing rights is reported net of this amount in the Consolidated Statement of Operations.

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