Common Law Wife Didn't Prove Succession Rights

January 23, 2015

LVT Number: #25917

An apartment occupant claimed succession rights to rent-stabilized tenant's apartment. The DRA ruled against occupant, who appealed and lost. Occupant claimed that she had lived with tenant as his common law wife for 39 years and had two children with him. She also argued that, as a senior citizen, she only had to prove that she had lived with tenant for a year before he moved out.

An apartment occupant claimed succession rights to rent-stabilized tenant's apartment. The DRA ruled against occupant, who appealed and lost. Occupant claimed that she had lived with tenant as his common law wife for 39 years and had two children with him. She also argued that, as a senior citizen, she only had to prove that she had lived with tenant for a year before he moved out. But, in spite of the DRA's request for additional information, occupant never provided the exact date that tenant moved out, didn't submit sufficient proof of rental payments prior to the time tenant moved out, and didn't provide any proof of emotional and financial interdependence between herself and tenant. 

Rodriguez: DHCR Adm. Rev. Docket No. CO410010RT (11/25/14) [4-pg. doc.]

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