Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in Texas

is it legal to keep someone from getting their posessions out of your house until they pay you money they owe?


Asked on 3/17/10, 10:25 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Mark Dunn Mark D. Dunn

If he was a tenant, with a lease, and owes you money, you may have a "landlord's lien." Otherwise, you don't have the right to withhold his property from him.

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Answered on 3/23/10, 4:57 am


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