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No Proof Roommate Was Nontraditional Family Member

April 27, 2017    

Landlord sued to evict occupant from apartment after rent-controlled tenant died in 2014. The occupant claimed that he was tenant’s nontraditional family member and entitled to succession rights. The trial...

Friend Who Moved Back in with Tenant Didn't Prove Succession Rights

March 14, 2017    

Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant after rent-stabilized tenant died....

No Pass-On Rights for Mitchell-Lama Occupants Who Claimed They Paid Rent

February 27, 2017    

Landlord sued to evict occupants from Mitchell-Lama apartment after HPD determined that the occupants didn’t have succession rights. The court ruled for landlord. Occupants appealed and lost. Occupants claimed...

Is Occupant Rent-Controlled Tenant’s Nontraditional Family Member?

January 17, 2017    

Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant after rent-controlled tenant died. Occupant claimed succession rights. Landlord asked the court to rule against occupant without a trial. The court refused. Landlord appealed...

Occupant Proves Mother/Daughter-Type Relationship with Late Tenant

August 19, 2016    

Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant after rent-stabilized tenant died, claiming that occupant was a licensee whose right to remain in the apartment expired with tenant’s death. Occupant claimed succession...

Nontraditional Family Member Gets Rent-Stabilized Apartment

April 26, 2016    

Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant from rent-stabilized apartment after tenant died. Occupant claimed that she was a co-tenant or, alternatively, that she was entitled to succession rights as a nontraditional...

Tenant's Girlfriend Gets Rent-Stabilized Apartment

April 26, 2016    

Apartment occupant complained that landlord refused to offer her a rent-stabilized renewal lease. She claimed that she was named co-tenant on a 2010 vacancy lease and that she had co-signed a two-year renewal lease...

Court Dismisses Roommate's Claim of Illusory Tenancy

April 19, 2016    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonprimary residence. Landlord claimed that tenant lived and worked in Switzerland, and that she had sublet the apartment to an occupant without landlord’s...

Trial Needed on Whether Occupant Was Nontraditional Family Member

April 19, 2016    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for nonprimary residence. Tenant admitted that he was now out of the apartment, but apartment occupant claimed succession rights as a nontraditional family member....

Occupant Claiming Pass-on Rights Not Entitled to Pretrial Questioning

September 19, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant who claimed succession rights after rent-stabilized tenant died. The court granted landlord’s request to conduct pretrial questioning but denied occupant’s...

Tenant's Domestic Partner Gets Apartment

July 22, 2015    

Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant after rent-stabilized tenant died. The occupant claimed that he was 74 years old and had lived with tenant for over 30 years as her spouse. Tenant’s death certificate...

Tenant's Ex-Wife Gets Vacancy Lease with New Husband

May 22, 2015    

Tenant complained of rent overcharge. Among other things, she said that landlord improperly...