Today Florida’s Attorney General, Bill McCollum, announced that the State of Florida will have funds to help Floridians facing foreclosure.

Thanks  to a settlement with Bank of America, resulting from their takeover of Countrywide Financial, the State of Florida will be releasing $4 million dollars to provide Foreclosure Defense services.  The funds will be distributed to non-profit agencies beginning October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2011.

Read more about it here in a story posted by the Tampa Bay Business Journal.