What are the laws for evicting a “guest”?
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What are the laws for evicting a “guest”?
We have been supporting my 22 year old son, his girlfriend and their baby for 2 years. Yesterday the girlfriend’s verbal abuse turned physical with me. I am a 54 year old disabled person. She even spit in my face. I told them I wanted them out and she had the nerve to tell me I have to give them 30 days. Do I?
Asked on August 11, 2011 California
Answers:
S.L,. Member, California Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
Since you are supporting your son, his girlfriend, and their baby, I assume they are not paying rent and there isn't any lease and consequently no landlord/tenant relationship exists. If that is the case, you can throw them out at anytime.
If there had been a lease, the girlfriend could be evicted with a three day notice for her behavior towards you. A tenant can be evicted with a three day notice to quit for an act that is injurious to health or is indecent or offensive to the senses or that obstructs the free use of property so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. This is the applicable provision in your situation of a legal definition of nuisance if there had been a landlord/tenant relationship. Since your son is permitting a nuisance (the girlfriend's behavior towards you), your son if he were a tenant could also be evicted with the three day notice. Again, if there isn't any landlord/tenant relationship, the "guests" can be evicted at anytime.
You could also sue the girlfriend for assault and battery for the spitting incident. Assault is placing one in reasonable apprehension of an immediate battery. Assault does not require any physical contact. Battery is the harmful or offensive touching of the person of another without consent or legal privilege.
Assault and battery are both civil (lawsuit) matters and also criminal charges that could be filed against the girlfriend.
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