Archive for the ‘Washington Eviction Process’ Category
Bad Form – Failure to Serve a Summons with Mandatoy Language Proves Costly for Landlord
July 27th, 2007 | 
Author: On June 8, 2006, I wrote in an article posted on this site about the new summons for residential unlawful detainer actions in Washington. In that article I wrote:
Amendments to the Washington Residential Landlord-Tenant Act went into effect yesterday….It is unclear what…courts will do when inevitably many landlord plaintiffs – acting pro se or with attorneys not familiar with the new law – come into court having served the old eviction summons.
A decision published last month by Division I of the Washington Court of Appeals held that a landlord had wrongfully evicted a tenant because the landlord’s attorney had caused the tenant to be served with an older version of the eviction summons. Read the rest of this entry »
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