of value’ is furnished for the referral of real estate settlement business ... [and to prohibit] a person that renders a settlement service from giving or rebating any portion of the charge to any other person except in return for services actually performed.” Mercado v. Calumet Fed. Savings & Loan Ass’n, 763 F.2d 269, 270-71 (7th Cir.1985) (Mercado) (quoting S.Rep. No. 93-866, 93rd Cong., 2d Sess. (1974), reprinted in 1974 U.S.C.C.A.N. 6551). This reading of the statute is consistent with the decisions of both the Fourth and Seventh Circuits, which have held that the plain language of Section 8(b) requires plaintiffs to plead facts showing that the defendant illegally shared fees with a third party. See Boulware v. Crossland Mortgage Corp., 291 F.3d 261, 265 (4th Cir.2002) (.Boulware) (<HOLDING>); Echevarria, 256 F.3d at 626 (affirming
holding that a defaulting party admits only to the liability of his or her portion of the damages and therefore what must be determined after the entry of default is the dollar amount of the damages suffered by the injured party and the portion of those damages to be awarded against the defaulting party based upon the extent of its percentage of negligence holding that a third party has authority to consent to a search if the third party is a coinhabitant holding 8b only prohibits overcharges when a portion or percentage of the overcharge is kicked back to or split with a third party holding the family court has jurisdiction to join third parties when property is alleged to be marital but is owned by a third party holding that where a third partys conduct is closely related to the contractual relationship or the contractual dispute and where the third party enjoys financial benefit from the contract the forum selection clause applies to the third party