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Your situation, stage by stage

WHERE YOU ARE

Pick the situation that is yours and put in each date once, on the stage it belongs to. The page shows the stage you are at and the period the statutes set after it, with whose period it is and the section it comes from. It says what the law sets, never what to do about it.

All of it runs in this browser. The dates are the same ones Your clock and your case file hold, and nothing you type is sent anywhere. What this site records.

Which situation is yours

The notice to pay or quit, and the first hearing after the unlawful detainer is filed.

  1. Stage 1 · What the statutes set next

    The notice to pay rent or have the agreement end

    Period
    14 days
    From
    Service of the written notice
    Whose
    The tenant

    For rent unpaid when due, the written notice states that the agreement ends if the rent is not paid within 14 days.

  2. Stage 2 · Later in the statutes

    The first hearing on an eviction

    Period
    21 days
    From
    Filing the unlawful detainer
    Whose
    The court

    For a residential tenancy, the first hearing is as soon as practicable and not more than 21 days after filing, or if that cannot be done, no later than 30 days after filing, unless the landlord asks for a later date.

Around these dates

What the law asks of each side between them, a step at a time: The Complaint

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MyRightz is legal education, not legal advice. Nothing here creates an attorney client relationship. Applying the law to a particular situation is the work of a licensed Virginia attorney.