Countrywide Home Loans is seeking to persuade a federal appeals court in Texas to decertify a class action lawsuit accusing the lender of unlawfully charging and splitting document preparation fees at closing. U.S. District Court Judge David Hittner in late August granted class certification to thousands of Texans, which allows them to sue Countrywide as a group for violation of the fee-splitting and anti-kickback prohibitions of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act and the state’s