The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that a lender must issue a new notice of intent to foreclose before filing a second foreclosure complaint after its initial complaint was dismissed.

In a Feb. 20 opinion in JPMorgan Chase v. Taggart, the justices unanimously reversed a ruling by the state Superior Court that had declined to follow its own 2014 ruling in Wells Fargo Bank v. Spivak, which held that a mortgagee was required to provide at least 30 days’ notice to a mortgagor before filing a new complaint where the mortgagee voluntarily discontinued its original foreclosure action.