No. Not all basement apartments are illegal. A legal apartment shows up as an apartment usually designated as Ground Floor or Garden Floor on the...

No. Your signature without the signature of the attorney who appeared in the lawsuit may be rejected by the other side as well as by the Court.

The moratorium runs through 1/15/2022. A Hardship Declaration triggers the tenant protection against filing an eviction case. A landlord...

Voluntary Discontinuance (no signed Stipulation) is available to the Plaintiff before service of a responding pleading (joinder of issue) and by...

Dear Mastic Beach Tenant: Your response depends on what you mean by "eviction notice". The Eviction Notice comes from an authorized County...

Dear Brooklyn Tenant: How are you "sharing" the apartment? Are you and the nuisance vaper co-tenants. that is two individuals who signed the...

Dear Self Represented Landlord Litigant: If you got stuck on the old-style terminology for a self-represented litigant, try reading through this...

OK. Your statement does not make sense. You are 17 years old, you have your own lease, and live with your children in the apartment without an...

Your landlord had 14 days to return the security deposit. Now, your former landlord owes double the original security deposit due to willful...

You may very well be correct. If you made it to the Court on time, and are named in the Holdover Petition and Notice of Petition you are not in...