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Comfortable_Plant667 t1_j2iu30k wrote

You're not going to live in a car with your three year old, you're going to call Safe Passage and get a place that is safe for that child and you to live until you have an apartment. Otherwise, having lived at the residence with your ex for over 30 days, you're going to assert your tenant's rights and stay there UNTIL you have a safe place to live. You risk having your child taken away from you living in a car, in winter no less.

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MAraised1986 t1_j2j0i8g wrote

So the ex has to let her stay there rent free?

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Comfortable_Plant667 t1_j2jajsl wrote

The ex has to serve them a formal eviction notice which takes time enough to give this person the opportunity to find appropriate housing for their child, otherwise they could be charged with endangerment and neglect due to inadequate shelter.

These are measures that are put in place to protect vulnerable children, who did not ask for a life like this, but who are innocent victims of shameful absence of communication, planning, mutual consideration, or respect and compassion, between each of the adults.

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MAraised1986 t1_j2jmkcv wrote

Didn't know this rule. There has to be exceptions right? So no matter what, if a minor is involved, you have to give them 30 days? If I have a girlfriend who has a child that is not mine, I come home to her cheating on me, I still have to allow her to stay in my home?

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Comfortable_Plant667 t1_j2jo8ya wrote

No, you must give a tenant (any guests residing at a property for longer than 30 days, and in some places 14 days) a formal eviction notice to have them forcibly removed from a residence.

It's not because there is a child involved. I was emphasizing that the person who benefits from this is the child because it gives the mother time to find a place to live other than a car (which would constitute criminal neglect).

If the scenario you described has happened to you, and communication fails and the person refuses to leave, serving an eviction notice will be a punishment for the adult and not the child because the adult will have an eviction notice on their tenancy record, whereas the child will not because minor children legally cannot agree to tenancy contracts.

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