Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in District of Columbia
Making a person move out of your house
What should you do when an eighty year old woman tells a nineteen year old male to move out of her house and the nineteen year old refuses to leave? The nineteen year old is not related to the eighty year old and he does not pay rent or contribute anything financial to the household.
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: Making a person move out of your house
Correction: The action to evict would be filed in the Landlord Tenant Branch of the Civil Division of D.C. Superior Court and not the general district court (which is Virginia).
Re: Making a person move out of your house
The owner, after giving verifiable notice to the unwanted one(who is without a legal basis to stay on)that he must move out by a date certain, should then call the local law enforcement authorities to have this person removed from the premises as a trespasser if he has not moved by the deadline date.(Class 1 misdeameanor offense).
Further note: However, if this freeloading tenant, not withstanding all the foregoing, was a paying tenant in the past, then the owner will likely have to proceed by the remedy of warrant for unlawful detainer in the general district court.
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