my husband and i have a home in another state and over the past weekend we had to go and clean our house out to rent it again due to an eviction. while there, the former tenant came to a neighbors and started a fight with my husband and i cussing and threats came from her until it progressed to her shoving my husband, spitting on him and trying to hit him. all this happened after i threatened to call cops if she didn’t leave. we called the cops out because of her actions and my husband decided to file charges against her and my neighbor and i had to fill out a witness form. the police said later that we’d have to show up in court possibly next month for the charges. is this true that we definitely have to show up and if so when do they subpoena us or summons us to court after it was filed. this all happened around 1 p.m. on saturday and we havent received anything yet.

Say I have a lease on a house that I both live in and /sublet/ to multiple tenants. One of these tenants and I do not get along, and so mutually agreed that things weren’t working out and that she would find a new place after the new year. I say she verbally agreed to move out on the seventh. She claims she never agreed to that date, and had only planned on moving out “sometime” after the new year. Now she wants another month, but I already signed on a new tenant to occupy her room!

At first, she offered to pay a full months rent for an extra week or two. But then we got into a heated argument when i told her that she had to leave immediately anyway and she claimed to have a /right/ to 30 days notice, and that I couldn’t make her leave until then. Now, she doesn’t want to pay rent at all, claiming that, so long as she can prove that this is her home address (which she can, considering she filed an official change of address form with the post office upon moving in), that I can’t change the locks or otherwise evict her until 30 days after I’ve given her written notice of eviction.

Is this true? And is there any way I can oust her immediately (regardless of whether or not she offers to pay this month’s rent)??
We are in the state of Maryland and I am the only one with a written lease. Those I sublet to are under a verbal agreement to pay their rent and portion of utilities monthly.

I’m 24 years old. I moved in with my parents 10 months ago because I finished my Masters program and wanted to relocate from Connecticut to Florida. I’ve been trying my hardest to get a job but with this job market, employers are hiring people with experience over people fresh out of school. To make matters more difficult, I’ve been disabled since birth and cannot drive so that limits my employment opportunities (I can’t do retail, waiting/serving, burger flipping, etc.) My parents are threatening to kick me out because they feel I’ve had enough time to get a job. I recieve Social Security and food stamps for my disability. I pay for all of my own groceries, but I do not pay rent because they want me to save my money. I offer to pay rent, but they won’t accept it. My social security payment is not enough to pay full rent & untilities for my own apartment.

Given my circumstances, can they just throw me out on the street? What are the legalities behind this? Wouldn’t they have to go through an eviction process? I’m looking for an intelligent, legal-based (Florida law) answer, not “You’re an adult, grow up and move out!” My circumstance is different than a lazy adult who doesn’t want to move out.