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Eviction
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Texas Bankruptcy Blog
Will Filing Bankruptcy Cause Your Eviction?
By Bryan Fears
Can you get evicted for declaring bankruptcy? This is a tricky question and depends on the individual facts of your case. If you file a Chapter 7 and are not…
PropertyProf Blog
Weird Landlord-Tenant Hypo of the Week
By propertyprof
A reader asks the Chicago Tribune the following question: My landlord comes into the house I'm renting to use the shower and groom himself. I feel so violated that I…
Massachusetts Land Use Monitor
SJC Splits Baby on New Statute’s Effect on Post-Foreclosure Evictions
Last month the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) decided Federal National Mortgage Association v. Nunez (pdf). We discussed the oral argument of that appeal in this earlier post. Nunez concerned a summary process (i.e. eviction) action…
Cincinnati Real Estate and Business Attorney
Ohio Residential Evictions
Many people become Landlords by accident. Perhaps you purchased a home to flip, only to find yourself stuck with the property because of market conditions. Whatever the reason, the Landlord/Tenant…
Massachusetts Land Use Monitor
Breaking News: SJC Rules that Housing Court has Jurisdiction to Consider Title-Based Defenses to Eviction Following Foreclosure
By Donald Pinto
The Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) this morning issued its decision in Bank of New York v. Bailey (pdf) (see our prior commentary here). In this case the defendant homeowner sought to stave…
New Jersey Law Blog
Appellate Division Reaffirms Absence of Strict Compliance Requirements for Notices to Quit on Commercial Landlords
In a recent decision, 350 Main Street, LLC v. Ren Guan Li d/b/a Sun Hing Restaurant, A-3265-09T4 (March 21, 2011), the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, examined whether…
Massachusetts Land Use Monitor
Appeals Court Rules That Summary Process Can Only Be Used Against Parties In Possession
In Massachusetts, the legal process for evicting commercial and residential tenants is governed not by the common law but by a statute (a very old statute – parts of it date…
International Law Prof Blog
Trouble on Easter Island (Rapa Nui)
Radio New Zealand International reports that the Chilean government has sent police reinforcements from the mainland to Easter Island following clashes over land disputes with indigenous Rapa Nui.Dozens of people,…
The Faculty Lounge
Haiti: Commission Calls for Moratorium on Forced Evictions
In October, I was part of a team of advocates who testified before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights at a thematic hearing on forced evictions being carried out in…
Land Use Prof Blog
Johnson on En Masse Evictions Caused by Subprime Crisis
Creola Johnson has published Renters evicted en masse: collateral damage arising from the subprime foreclosure crisis in the Florida Law Review (62 Fla. L. Rev. 975 (2010), in case the…