Walk It Through: The Way Out
A protective order or a charge, 28 days' notice, and no liquidated damages.
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. The service member's release in detail, the deposit, and the protective order itself 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 abuseAn act of violence, force or threat by a family or household member that causes bodily injury or places someone in reasonable apprehension of death, sexual assault or bodily injury.
- Liquidated damagesAn amount equal to the unpaid wages that the court awards on top of them in a suit for unpaid wages, with prejudgment interest and attorney fees; the award is triple the wages when the employer knowingly failed to pay.
- Protective orderAn order against family abuse running for a specified period up to two years, or up to four after an earlier order within 10 years, and expiring at 11:59 p.m. on its last day.