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Valuable information concerning landlord tenant matters. Please read!
If you have been served with an eviction complaint (usually referred to as a Complaint for Unlawful Detainer), YOU HAVE ONLY FIVE (5) CALENDAR DAYS to file a written response in PROPER FORM at the PROPER COURT. (If the fifth day following service falls on a judicial holiday, then you have up until the first business day that is NOT a judicial holiday to file your Response).
The purpose of this response is to alert the landlord and his lawyer, if any, to the defenses you intend to present at the time of trial. If anything is left out of the response, the COURT MAY LIMIT YOUR RIGHT TO SPEAK AND TO PRESENT DEFENSES during trial. It is therefore of PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE that your response contain all legal defenses that you will (or may) present at trial, lest you be prevented from presenting your defenses when the trial is held. If you do not timely file a response, there may be no trial, and you will lose by default. You will first find out that you have lost the case when a Sheriff shows up at your door with a Notice of Eviction in hand; if you are not home, it will be posted on your door. UNTIL A TENANT VOLUNTARILY VACATES OR A COURT SAYS OTHERWISE, THE TENANT HAS THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO POSSESSION OF THE RENTAL UNIT.
THERE ARE NUMEROUS RULES AND REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO THIS COMPLEX AREA OF THE LAW. See, for example, the Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance.
If you have been served with an eviction complaint (usually referred to as a Complaint for Unlawful Detainer), YOU HAVE ONLY FIVE (5) CALENDAR DAYS to file a written response in PROPER FORM at the PROPER COURT. (If the fifth day following service falls on a judicial holiday, then you have up until the first business day that is NOT a judicial holiday to file your Response).
The purpose of this response is to alert the landlord and his lawyer, if any, to the defenses you intend to present at the time of trial. If anything is left out of the response, the COURT MAY LIMIT YOUR RIGHT TO SPEAK AND TO PRESENT DEFENSES during trial. It is therefore of PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE that your response contain all legal defenses that you will (or may) present at trial, lest you be prevented from presenting your defenses when the trial is held. If you do not timely file a response, there may be no trial, and you will lose by default. You will first find out that you have lost the case when a Sheriff shows up at your door with a Notice of Eviction in hand; if you are not home, it will be posted on your door. UNTIL A TENANT VOLUNTARILY VACATES OR A COURT SAYS OTHERWISE, THE TENANT HAS THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO POSSESSION OF THE RENTAL UNIT.
THERE ARE NUMEROUS RULES AND REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO THIS COMPLEX AREA OF THE LAW. See, for example, the Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance.