Walk It Through: The Way Out
Out of the lease on a family violence order, 30 days' notice, and one month's rent plus $500 if the landlord refuses.
A tenant whose former partner keeps showing up at the apartment gets a protective order and wants to move out before the lease ends.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One apartment and one order. Military deployment, violence by a cotenant, and the deposit are not worked through 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.
- Family violenceAn act by a member of a family or household against another member intended to result in physical harm, bodily injury, assault or sexual assault, or a threat that reasonably places the member in fear of it. It also includes child abuse and dating violence.
- Protective orderThe order a court renders after finding that family violence has occurred, effective for the period it states, up to two years.