Days of Notice Your State Requires Before an Eviction Case

Seven cells of your state's row in this section's 51-row chart: the notice for the ground you choose (unpaid rent, a lease violation other than rent, or ending a month-to-month tenancy without a stated cause), the just-cause rule, the federal rule for covered dwellings, the self-help rule, the court and the filing fee. Each row was checked on October 14, 2026, every cell keeps its source, and a cell read from a secondary source says so in the result.

The ground picks the notice cell, and the cell is quoted with its conditions kept: a right to pay and stay, a cure period or a counting rule stays in the words shown. A notice for unpaid rent is recorded for every row; a lease-violation notice for 45 and a no-cause notice for 45, with Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York and South Dakota blank on the lease-violation cell, which the result reports as not recorded.

Only when the cell gives one period, in calendar days or calendar months, that starts at service: for unpaid rent that is 23 jurisdictions today. The check then adds the period to the service date, names the day the notice ends, and gives the next day as the earliest filing date the count allows; a cell that sets the notice as days served before filing, as Wyoming's does, makes the last day of the count the earliest filing day. Everywhere else the result gives the period in words: business, judicial or court days (Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas and Utah), a cell naming several periods for several conditions, a period tied to a rent date, or a count that starts from another event.

The federal rule is quoted beside the state notice and is never combined with it: for a covered dwelling the recorded federal rule sets its own period after a notice to vacate, and the result says whether that rule is reached by the answer you give, with the cell's own definition of a covered dwelling where the answer is not sure.

A statewide just-cause rule is recorded for California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon and Washington, and New York records a local one with no statewide rule; for every other state the cell records no statewide requirement, which the result quotes rather than reading it as permission. The self-help cell, recorded for 37 states, states the rule on changing locks, shutting off utilities or removing belongings outside the court process. The court and fee cells name the court that hears the case and quote the fee schedule with its tiers and caveats; a blank cell reads not recorded.

It does not say whether your notice is valid, whether your tenancy can be ended, or how long your case will take. Service rules, local ordinances, lease terms and a tenant's defenses sit outside these cells, and a total case length is recorded only where a court page states one, which you can see in the free eviction timeline estimator. It shows no attorney fee, because none is sourced.