Legal question, Please help us and our Landlord?
June 28th, 2011 | 
Author: Hello. I’m from the big island of Hawaii. My wife, a 6-month old baby and I are renting a downstairs unit from an elderly man for about a week now and just a couple days ago he informed us that he has been accused of molesting and pointing a gun at a teen relative sometime last year. The courts tried to get him to plead guilty, which would of resulted in 20 years in jail, but he didn’t because he knew he was being wrongfully accused. so now they settled on a 5 year probation and 9 weekends in jail. His probation (from what he was telling me in a nutshell) prohibits him from being around minors under the age of 18 and that he can not go certain places unless he is with someone.
He did have to evict the previous tenants because they had multiple children under the age of 18… and because they were extremely messy 
He has been very helpful and generous in letting us move in and is quite lenient about the rent. Before we moved in, he did ask if we had any teenagers. thinking that he didn’t want some rambunctious kids keeping him up till midnight. in reality it was because of his probation. He thought it would be fine to let us move in because our baby is only 6-months old. To make sure, he called his attorney today and he said that its a no go.
The landlord an i feel this is unfair and kinda stupid… my wife is with the baby at all times. The land lord works construction and is working a set schedule of 6-3, Mon-Fri so he is not home all day anyway. he is now inclined to have us move out because of his probation but he really doesn’t want to have to do that. an i don’t want to have to move either. Great location, great neighborhood and Extremely nice landlord. Is there anything we can do? legally?
Posted in Landlord Tenant Law
These laws are here to protect you and your child. Even if in this case you don’t believe the law is correct, you shouldn’t try and cut corners. I hope there isn’t an easy way around this because if someday you do have a landlord who did commit something terrible against a child you will want to know about it and hope that he did not find a loophole in the law.
I’m sorry if you do have to move out, I hope everything works out
I think your mad, wanting to keep your baby around an alleged child molestor.
Since he has been convicted of the crime and given time in jail as well as 5 years probation.
Aloha.
I believe the judge would have to sign an order — an addendum to his probation structure which allows babies. That’s a shame. I wish you and your family the best!
Why would you even want to stay there. Under 18 means under 18, 6 months qualifies.
It is not your landlord’s decision but the Law. There is NO way around it so move