In the wake of the financial disaster created by the COVID pandemic, many New Jersey landlords and tenants have become familiar with Executive Order 106, which states that no lockouts of residential tenants can occur until two months after the State of Emergency has ended. As of the date of…
During the past several weeks, our office has fielded hundreds of phone calls and emails from anxious clients (and concerned attorneys), who have all been wondering when we will resume having landlord tenant trials in New Jersey. Unfortunately, as of now, there is still no plan as to when (and…
During the past few weeks, our office has been reporting on New Jersey’s restrictions on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the core of these temporary measures is Executive Order 106, which generally prohibits lockouts from taking place until two full months after the State of Emergency has ended. The…
Our office remains open and we are closely monitoring the quickly developing effects of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. During the past few days, we have received several calls from our clients, who concerned about the effects of the moratorium on evictions. As resources become available and new information is released,…
On Sunday, March 15, 2020, our office published an urgent update regarding some of the recent emergency measures that had been instituted by the New Jersey Judiciary in order to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Our article specifically focused on landlord tenant proceedings, which are usually grouped together by…
For nearly 50 years, most of New Jersey’s residential tenants have been protected by the vast set of Statutes, known simply as The Anti-Eviction Act (“The Act”). Throughout the years the Act has undergone various, but generally minor, revisions. However, amidst these changes, eviction complaints based on non-payment of rent…
In last month’s blog, our office presented Part One of our discussion on our recommendations to an arbitration board with regard a commercial landlord tenant matter, in which the tenant withheld rent in due to alleged habitability defects. In this month’s blog, we continue our discussion of our analysis of…
Our firm was recently retained to provide an amicus brief to an Arbitration Board, for purposes of helping the arbitrator to resolve a commercial landlord tenant dispute, in which the Tenant had stopped paying rent, ostensibly due to habitability defects, affecting both the leased premises and the common area. The…
Our office has previously reported on the subject of removing property that had been abandoned by a tenant. The general procedure, in those instances, requires a landlord to not only obtain a judgment for possession against the tenant, but to also provide the tenant with 30 days advance notice of…