The single most useful move right now is to stop chasing the landlord by phone and trigger the one process that actually carries legal weight: a...

The single most useful move right now is to stop chasing the landlord by phone and trigger the one process that actually carries legal weight: a...

First thing, and tell her this before anything else: she is not being evicted in 8 days. A notice from the owner is not an eviction. In New York,...

I'll put your mind at ease on the main thing first: an adjournment from the New Part to "For All Purposes" is housekeeping, not a ruling. All it...

Yes, there may be, and I don't say that lightly. What you're describing is hard, and I won't hand you false comfort, but you are not without rights...

The honest answer is that the filing itself is cheap, but "what does it cost to file" is the wrong question to be asking, and I'd be doing you a...

Short answer: you may well have a claim, but "failure to provide safe haven" isn't quite the legal hook a court would use. The stronger ground is...

Generally, an affidavit of non-compliance must be filed first, after which the matter is referred to the sheriff for enforcement. The timing of the...

Under New York landlord-tenant law, you would need to formally evict any and all occupants of the property.

The straightforward answer is no. That said, more facts would need to be known to confirm that the question accurately describes the events involved.