Walk It Through: The Lease Signing
A clause about lawyer's fees, a question about families with children, rent day, and the tenant's own duties.
In a county under the landlord tenant act, the lease says the tenant pays the landlord's attorney's fees in any dispute.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
Signing a lease under the act. Rules adopted later, the deposit, and what each side can do when the other breaches are walked through elsewhere.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Good faithSeeking medical help for an overdose genuinely, which protects the caller and the person overdosing from possession and paraphernalia charges from evidence found because of it.
- Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant ActThe rental law in KRS 383.505 to 383.705, which applies only where a city, county or urban county government has adopted it, whole and without amendment.