Eviction, tenant with special needs child

[STEPHAN]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Florida

I am working on an eviction. Tenant writes me an e-mail:

A judge will not have my children suffer or be put out on the street. They are 10 and 11. My 11 year old son has special needs.

I found nothing about kids or even special needs kids in regards to eviction.

Do you know anything?

 

[Gail in Georgia]

I'm going to assume you are doing an eviction due to failure to pay rent, correct?

Having a special needs child is not a LEGAL reason to prevent an eviction due to failure to pay rent.

In fact, it's rather disgusting to use a special needs child as an excuse to live in a rental unit free.

Families have been put out on the street on Christmas eve.

Gail

 

[STEPHAN]

Thanks Gail.

Yes, failure to pay rent.


Such a rule would cause the exact opposite: People with special needs children would have a hard time to find a place.


Until today there was never mention of a special needs child, so I don't even know if it is true

 

[FarmerJ]

If your tenant lets it go to court thinking that somehow her developmentally disabled child is a get out of eviction card she is wrong at the very best the court might allow her to have the maximum amount of time one can be granted to get out even with a so called hardship ( children, senior citizen , etc) like where I live if someone has kids the courts routinely grant 7 days to vacate and with childless young adults I.ve seen it as little as 24 hours to get out.