Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Indiana

Re: Evicting a Single parent with Children

Single parents with children are legally evicted every day. Your status as a single parent is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether you have been paying the rent due, and whether the landlord has been providing the premises you have been living in. It may be possible to assert a defense of breach of the implied warranty of habitiability (and grieve that the landlord has been providing a dwelling open to the elements, rat-infested, or otherwise in breach of code), but that may not be effective if you didn't complain until after your lease expired and you stopped paying rent. Your best solution is to pay the rent. Good luck.