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Rent-Controlled Tenant's Life Partner Gets Apartment

March 28, 2025    

Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant some time after rent-controlled tenant died, claiming that she was a licensee whose right to live in the apartment ended when tenant died. The occupant claimed succession...

Non-Traditional Family Member Fails to Prove Succession Rights

February 25, 2025    

Landlord sued to evict rent-controlled tenant and her roommate in 2017, based on tenant's nonprimary residence. The roommate claimed that, even if the unit was no longer tenant's primary residence, he had...

Occupant Claiming to Be Partner of Evicted Tenant Doesn't Get Succession Rights

July 22, 2024    

Apartment occupant filed a lease violation complaint in 2023, claiming succession rights and stating that landlord failed to give her a renewal lease after rent-stabilized tenant was evicted from the apartment....

Rent-Stabilized Tenant's Life Partner Has Succession Rights to Apartment

April 26, 2024    

Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant after rent-stabilized tenant died. Occupant claimed succession rights as the life partner of the tenant. The court ruled for occupant after trial. Four witnesses testified...

Nontraditional Family Member Gets Rent-Stabilized Apartment

August 29, 2023    

Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant after rent-stabilized tenant died, claiming that he was a licensee who no longer had a right to remain in the unit. The occupant claimed he had succession rights. After trial...

Occupant Can't Prove Succession Rights to Mitchell-Lama Co-op Apartment

February 22, 2023    

In early 2020, landlord started a lease termination proceeding at HPD against a Mitchell-Lama co-op tenant, seeking a Certificate of Eviction. The tenant had lived in a caretaking facility since 2015 and at a later...

Claimed Polyamorous Partner Can Seek Succession Claim to Rent-Stabilized Apartment

October 25, 2022    

Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant after rent-stabilized tenant died. The occupant claimed succession rights as a nontraditional family member. Landlord asked the court to rule against occupant without a trial...

Health Care Aide Fails to Prove Succession Rights to Rent-Stabilized Tenant's Apartment

May 25, 2022    

An apartment occupant complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to offer her a rent-stabilized renewal lease after tenant died. She claimed she was the "daughter" and "primary health care attendant...

Nontraditional Family Member Gets Rent-Stabilized Apartment

May 25, 2022    

An apartment occupant complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to give him a renewal lease after rent-stabilized tenant died. The occupant claimed that he had succession rights as a nontraditional family member....

Apartment Occupant Proves Succession Rights to Rent-Stabilized Apartment

April 15, 2022    

An apartment occupant complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to offer her a renewal lease. She claimed that she had succession rights to the former rent-stabilized tenant's apartment as a nontraditional...

Domestic Partner Gets Rent-Stabilized Tenant's Apartment

September 27, 2021    

Rent-stabilized tenant's domestic partner claimed succession rights to tenant's apartment after tenant died. The DRA ruled for the partner. Landlord appealed and won. The DHCR found that the partner didn'...

Tenant's Alleged Domestic Partner Can't Get NYCHA Apartment

July 26, 2021    

After a NYCHA tenant died, an apartment occupant sought succession rights. NYCHA held a hearing in 2019 and denied the occupant's remaining family member grievance. The occupant then filed an Article 78 court...