Walk It Through: The Way Out
An order that can exclude, ninety days to ask, and no rent after the month of moving out.
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 other kinds of protection order, the hearing, 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.
- Gross misdemeanorThe crime level between a misdemeanor and a felony, punishable by up to three hundred sixty four days in jail, a fine up to five thousand dollars, or both.
- Protection orderAn order of one of the kinds the statute lists, among them domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, vulnerable adult and extreme risk protection orders.