cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this dataset, please cite it as: Probative Growth, Eviction laws by state and territory: notice, cure, just cause, fees and timing (LSC), 2026, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23963453. Source: Probative, Eviction laws by state and territory: notice, cure, just cause, fees and timing (LSC), version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23963453, licensed CC BY 4.0."
type: dataset
title: "Eviction laws by state and territory: notice, cure, just cause, fees and timing (LSC)"
authors:
  - name: "Probative Growth"
    website: "https://probativegrowth.com"
version: "2.0.0"
date-released: 2026-11-04
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.23963453
url: "https://probativegrowth.com/data/eviction-laws/"
license: CC-BY-4.0
abstract: "How the law of each U.S. state, the District of Columbia and five territories regulates residential evictions as of January 1, 2021, coded from the statutes by the Legal Services Corporation and Temple University's Center for Public Health Law Research: the notice a landlord must give before filing for nonpayment, whether a tenant may cure, whether a landlord needs a stated cause, caps on late fees, the filing fee the law sets, the days to answer, to appeal and between writ and removal, mediation, and the statute cited for the notice rule. One record per jurisdiction plus a national summary."
keywords:
  - "eviction laws by state"
  - "eviction notice period by state"
  - "just cause eviction states"
  - "late fee caps by state"
  - "tenant cure period nonpayment"
  - "eviction filing fee by state"
  - "landlord tenant law data"