On Thursday, The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the latest extension of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s eviction moratorium. Click here to read the full opinion. For landlords,…
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As luck would have it, a post I made about the national eviction moratorium generated more questions for my office to answer. Specifically, what happens if a lease expires while…
Read moreQuite a few landlords have called my office lately with one question — is there an eviction moratorium and what does that mean for me? The answer to that question…
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Typically, it takes a landlord less than a month to evict a tenant for violating his or her lease but that is not always the case. In Arkansas, the eviction…
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Being an attorney who handles both bankruptcies and evictions comes with certain advantages – it can be handy to understand the strengths and drawbacks of both areas of law when…
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I was reminded by a very client of mine the other day that a lot of lawyers aren’t very good at explaining things. I was the guilty party in this…
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Tenants facing eviction clearly have financial problems and, of course, people struggling with paying their bills sometimes file for bankruptcy. If a tenant files for bankruptcy while a landlord is…
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A question I get quite a bit from landlords is whether they can dispose of a tenant’s property after an eviction. The answer on that is a bit murky. Everything…
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Not too long ago, a potential client showed up in my office wanting me to defend him in an eviction case filed against him by his landlord. That was novel…
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Ever since the criminal eviction statute was declared unconstitutional in Pulaski County, I’ve gotten quite a few calls from landlords in that county wanting to evict people through the good…
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