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California Eviction Defense Manual 2024

California Eviction Defense Manual 2024

Published June 2024

The most comprehensive, efficient eviction defense resource ever published. With nearly 100 litigation forms, it covers both substantive and procedural law on these issues and more:

  • Termination notices; pretrial defense motions
  • Postforeclosure evictions: borrower and tenant strategies
  • Defending tenants who use medical marijuana
  • Negotiating tips; settlements
  • Warranty of habitability defense
  • Eviction-controlled jurisdictions
  • Commercial tenancies and government-assisted housing
  • Trial, judgments, writs, and appeals
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Table of Contents

    Table of Contents

    Volume 1

  • 1. Overview of Unlawful Detainer Law
  • 2. Relationship of Unlawful Detainer to Other Actions
  • 3. Self-Help by Landlord
  • 4. Representing the Tenant; Office Procedures
  • 5. Grounds for Eviction
  • 6. Three-Day Notice
  • 7. Thirty-Day/Sixty-Day Notices and Termination Without Notice
  • 8. Service of Notices on Tenant
  • 9. Negotiating Strategies
  • 10. Proceeding in Forma Pauperis
  • 11. Service of Summons and Complaint; Motion to Quash Service of Summons
  • 12. Default Judgments
  • 13. Demurring and Moving to Strike
  • 14. Answering and Alleging Affirmative Defenses
  • 15. Affirmative Defenses—Implied Warranty of Habitability
  • 16. Affirmative Defenses—Retaliatory Evictions
  • 17. Special Considerations Governing Evictions in Rent-Controlled Cities
  • Volume 2

  • 18. Special Considerations Governing Evictions From Federally Assisted Housing
  • 19. Special Considerations Governing Evictions in Commercial Tenancies
  • 20. Effect of Sale of Property on Unlawful Detainer Proceedings
  • 21. Effect of Filing Bankruptcy on Proceedings in Unlawful Detainer
  • 22. Summary Judgment
  • 23. Discovery
  • 24. Rights of Occupants Not Named in Lease
  • 25. Trial
  • 26. Judgment
  • 27. Posttrial Motions
  • 28. Enforcement of Judgment—Removing Tenant and Tenant’s Belongings
  • 29. Appeals
  • 30. Civil Writs
  • 31. Return of Security Deposit and Disposition of Last Month’s Rent

Authors

    Original Authors

  • Myron Moskovitz
  • Sonya Bekoff Molho
  • Diana D. Sam
  • Dean Preston
  • Catherine M. Bishop
  • Laura L. Lane
  • Ubaldo Fernandez
  • Kent K. Qian
  • Leondard E. Marquez
  • Brittany K. McCormick
  • Ira Jacobowitz
  • Clifford R. Horner
  • Steven A. MacDonald
  • Nancy Ann Palandati
  • David Pallack
  • Dara L. Schur
  • San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation (SFNLAF)
  • Luz F. Buitrago
  • Robert P. Capistrano
  • Arnold C. Ellis
  • Phillip R. Morgan
  • J. Wallace Oman
  • Catherine Downs Orozco
  • Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC)
  • Wendy Lee Bogdan
  • Deborah A. Collins
  • Anne H. Pearson
  • R. Mona Tawatao
  • Brian L. Augusta

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