Is it legal to break a rental lease if you’re diagnosed with stage 4 breast and bone cancer and cannot safely handle stairs in California?
Is it legal to break a rental lease if you’re diagnosed with stage 4 breast and bone cancer and cannot safely handle stairs in California?
No. It may provide you a sympathy reason for the landlord to allow you out.
Terry A. Nelson
Nelson & Lawless
18685 Main St., #175
Huntington Beach, CA 92648
No. The risk of changed circumstances is almost always placed on the party whose circumstances changed. Similarly, the landlord has no right to break the lease and kick the tenant out because the landlord suddenly needs that house for health reasons, or any other.
Bryan Whipple
Bryan R. R. Whipple, Attorney at Law
P O Box 318
Tomales, CA 94971-0318