Walk It Through: Ten Days To Pay
The rent notice, the summons, and the appeal that holds only with the rent.
Rent is late, and a written notice to leave is posted on the door.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One unpaid rent case. Notices for the end of a term or a breach, the domestic violence appeal terms, mobile home parks, and what happens at the hearing are not set out here.
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.
- Appeal to the court of common pleasEither side's appeal of a residential judgment, taken within ten days.
- Notice to quitThe landlord's written notice to leave: ten days from service for rent not paid on demand, fifteen days at the end of a lease of a year or less, and thirty days for a lease of more than a year.