2020 Advanced Landlord-Tenant Practice in Missouri

• Recent cases involving landlord tenant disputes 

• How recent court decisions have affected the practice of landlord tenant law 

• Recent experiences in trying landlord tenant cases other than routine rent and possession cases 

• Examples of how trial judges are applying the recent landlord tenant cases as well as the not so recent statutes that have been enacted dealing with evictions 

• Some unusual issues that the practitioner may encounter in the course of representing a client in a landlord tenant matter as well as attorney client relations in a landlord tenant case 

• Evolving law relating to the implied warranty of habitability and the current application of the implied warranty of habitability as both a defense and the basis of a cause of action 

• Dispel some common myths about landlord tenant law so you can be prepared to rebut those myths 

• Exculpatory clauses in leases and what clauses can be enforced and what clauses cannot be enforced 

• Some actual trials involving the issues above and share the ‘Judge's Findings of Fact and Conclusion of Law and Judgment’ in those cases 

• Different methods of eviction in Missouri including 

              * rent & possession 

              * unlawful detainer 

              * “immediate” eviction 

• Abandonment and tenant defenses