NLPAds
- Practice Area:
- General Practice | Real Property
- Format:
- Audio and Video
Description
Discussion will include:
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Recent cases involving landlord tenant disputes
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How recent court decisions have affected the practice of landlord tenant law
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Recent experiences in trying landlord tenant cases other than routine rent and possession cases
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Examples of how trial judges are applying the recent landlord tenant cases as well as the not so recent statutes that have been enacted dealing with evictions
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Some unusual issues that the practitioner may encounter in the course of representing a client in a landlord tenant matter as well as attorney client relations in a landlord tenant case
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Evolving law relating to the implied warranty of habitability and the current application of the implied warranty of habitability as both a defense and the basis of a cause of action
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Dispel some common myths about landlord tenant law so you can be prepared to rebut those myths
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Exculpatory clauses in leases and what clauses can be enforced and what clauses cannot be enforced
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Some actual trials involving the issues above and share the ‘Judge’s Findings of Fact and Conclusion of Law and Judgment’ in those cases
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Different methods of eviction in Missouri including
* rent & possession
* unlawful detainer
* “immediate” eviction
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Abandonment and tenant defenses
Speaker: Robert J. Wise, Attorney at Law, Kansas City
Note: This material qualifies for self-study credit only. Pursuant to Regulation 15.04.5, a lawyer may receive up to six hours of self-study credit in a reporting year. Self-study programs do not qualify for GAL Certification, ethics, elimination of bias or Kansas credit.
