Breaking a senior citizen lease because of illness

Thanks for your question. Since I am an attorney, I cannot ethically give you specific legal advice on your situation, since you are not my client, but I can only provide you with general information that you may find helpful. The best advice that I can recommend to you is to contact a guardianship attorney that can work with you on your unique situation.

Generally speaking, there is no such provision recognized as a routine principal of contract for residence in Florida. You can understand this when the context of Florida there are so many “snow birds” that would like to winter here, and then spend time back up North in the summer.

With that said, if there are extenuating circumstances that can be demonstrated as a hardship, your landlord may agree to release you from your obligations as a matter of goodwill. Rather than involving an attorney, I would suggest talking to them about your health reasons, and your need to be released from the lease. Otherwise, default contract principals would apply and you would likely loose your last month’s rent and security deposit.

Best of luck,
Shawn C. Newman, Esq.
Attorney At Law
1881 NE 26th Street, Suite 212E
Wilton Manors, FL 33305
(877) 552-9385
Shawn@ShawnNewman.com