Your situation, stage by stage
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.
An eviction for unpaid rent. 4 stages, from The eviction hearing.
Stage 1 · What the statutes set next
The hearing on a petition for possession is set not less than five nor more than 10 judicial days after the petition is filed.
Stage 2 · Later in the statutes
Any written defense may be filed and served on the landlord within five days, and a tenant with no answer by the hearing loses possession.
Stage 3 · Later in the statutes
Belongings stored or left on the property may be disposed of after thirty days if the costs are unpaid and the tenant has not taken them.
Stage 4 · Later in the statutes
The landlord stores belongings worth more than $300 up to thirty additional days for a tenant who says they will remove them and pays the costs.
What the law asks of each side between them, a step at a time: The Eviction Papers
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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 West Virginia attorney.
