Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California

Your lease, or a separate notice should have advised you of your right to check the Megan's Law database before you signed the lease. Check your lease and everything they gave you. If they did not give you the notice, it might - might be grounds to break your lease. If they gave you the notice, then you are probably stuck with the terrible decision to either break the lease and get sued, or stay and expose your daughter to potential harm. Two suggestions - first, see if your landlord will let you break the lease early if you can help him find a new tenant. Sometimes if he loses no rent, he won't frankly care. Second, it sounds like you have done this, but make sure you fully understand why this guy is on the database, and what he did. Sometimes people are on that database that pose absolutely no risk to children. If that's the case, then you may not have grounds to terminate the lease.

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