My husband was defending me when another drunk resident forced his way into our apt was hurting me My husband threw him out of our apt into the courtyard they fought now I am being evicted How?

Answer 1

You can be evicted for many reasons. You have to go to court to defend yourself. If you don't show up, the landlord wins by default. You don't need a lawyer to do this but you can get one from the free legal aid. You should have gotten a summons that says what part of the rental contract or lease you broke. The landlord will present his "reasons" in court. Read your lease / contract. He has to prove that you broke your contract or your lease by doing something that was not allowed to evict you and break your lease or rental contract. Usually, he has to give you notice of what you did wrong before he files eviction. Sometimes the contract says that by signing the contract, you have been notified of all the rules, and no further notice is necessary. Did you break a law? where you charged with anything? You can be evicted for unlawful conduct. You can also be evicted just because the landlord wants his apartment back and you won't leave. BUT he can't keep taking your rent. By taking your rent he agrees every month to allow you to stay. Even by taking a partial payment. Do you have a Lease or a rental contract? If not, there is a month to month or week to week agreement provided by the state tenant landlord laws. To get you to leave when you don't want to, he has to evict you. Its a legal way for the landlord to get you out of the apartment, and get the place back. But each state has a eviction process and you can appeal the finding at each stage of the process. So it takes longer in some states than others to evcit someone and get the apartment back.