Eviction Timeline in Your State: Notice, Filing Date, Court

Every line of a result comes from your state's row in this site's 51-row chart of notice periods and court steps, checked on October 14, 2026, and every cell keeps its own source. The estimator reads the notice cell for the ground you choose (unpaid rent, a lease violation, or ending a month-to-month tenancy without a stated cause), then the answer or hearing timing, the court, the filing fee, the just-cause rule and the federal rule for covered dwellings.

The cells quote the statute or court page with its conditions kept, so a right to pay and stay, a cure period or a weekend rule stays in the text the result shows. Where a cell rests on a secondary source rather than the statute or a court page, the result says so beside it. A blank cell means the research did not read that rule, and the result says that rather than treating the gap as a rule.

A date is counted only when the cell gives one period, in calendar days or calendar months, that starts at service. The estimator then adds the days or months to the service date, shows the day the notice period ends, and gives the next day as the earliest filing date the count allows; where the cell says the notice is served a number of days before filing, as Wyoming's statute does, the last day of the count is itself the earliest filing day. Days are counted as calendar days, as recorded, unless the cell states its own rule, and months are added as calendar months; a month count that would land on a day the month does not have gets no date. For unpaid rent, the current cells allow a count in 23 jurisdictions.

Everywhere else the result states the period in words. Where a cell counts business, judicial or court days, or leaves out weekends and holidays, as in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas and Utah, the result reads, for example, "3 business days after service", because the holidays inside a period are not in the dataset and a calendar date could be wrong. Where a cell names more than one period for different conditions, ties the end of the notice to a rent date, or starts the count from another event, the result quotes the cell and counts no date.

The answer or hearing line gives the time a statute or court page sets for the tenant to answer or for the first hearing, with the cell's counting rule. The court line names the court, and the filing fee line quotes the fee with its tiers and caveats. Each is a separate cell with its own linked source.

The estimator does not add these steps into a total. A case can stop early when rent is paid, run longer when it is contested or continued, and the time from judgment to removal depends on the writ and the officer's schedule. The dataset records a total length only where a court page states one, which is Arizona and California, and the result quotes that page where it exists.

7 jurisdictions require just cause statewide for most residential tenancies in the dataset (California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon and Washington), and New York's rule reaches New York City and places that opt in. Where a just-cause rule applies, a no-cause notice can be barred, and the notice cell for that ground says so in the state's words. The result shows the recorded just-cause rule for every ground, so it sits beside the notice it limits.

For a covered dwelling, the federal CARES Act rule in 15 U.S.C. 9058(c)(1) bars requiring a tenant to vacate before 30 days after a notice to vacate. The result quotes that rule, or the state statute that addresses it, for every state. Whether a property is a covered dwelling depends on its housing program or mortgage, which the estimator does not ask about.

It shows no attorney fee, no service-of-process charge and no writ or officer fee, because none is sourced in the dataset. It does not tell you which notice form to use, how to serve it, or whether a notice you already served meets the statute.

It gives no view on your tenancy: not whether a ground exists, whether a tenant has a defense, or how a court will rule.