Legal Question in Landlord & Tenant Law in Florida

Your son may also be liable for the rent - he needs to check the lease. Some leases in college towns create individual liability for each roommate's share of rent, but it is more common that the liability is joint, meaning that each roommate may be held liable for the entire rent. As far as utilities are concerned, it depends whose name they're in. If all of the utilities are in your son's name, he's responsible for them, and vice versa. Your son can certainly ask the roommate for half the utilities, but the roommate may not have any legal responsibility to pay them. For future roommates, your son may want to consider having a signed agreement between the roommates that outlines their responsibilities, including who pays utilities. If he would like to discuss such an agreement, he can register with me at www.chrismcchesney.com

Read the lease. It may specify how utilities were to be paid, creating an obligation for both to pay, not just the person on the bill. Regards,

It will depend on what the lease says. Also, who signed the obligation for utilities. If in both names, fine, both are responsible. If not, then whoever the utilties name are in, that person is responsible.