A mother in Ohio has taken in her severly alcoholic son, a large 35 year old man, to help him stop drinking and get medical help. After four years of various detox and rehab efforts he continues to drink himself into oblivion for days and sometimes weeks at a stretch. The mother has her own serious health and financial issues with disabling diabetes and can not continue to care for him or tolerate his drunken behavior which is at times threatening, destructive and or dangerous. She needs to get a live in companion to help her manage her diabetes (she sometimes passes out and needs to be revived with glucose) but no one would live with her under current circumstances.
The mother owns her home and has no rental agreement with her son. She has told her son he needs to move out. She even rented him a motel room for a few weeks and had some friends escort him there. He begged to return and promised to stop drinking. She let him come home, but he has relapsed and things are back to where they were. He now refuses to leave again.
The mother understands she can go through a formal eviction process, but that would take at least a month. She also fears what might happen if the son gets belligerant or even more destructive in his drunken stumbles.
A restraining order would then be an option, I suppose, but still takes time which may be too long for a frail woman living with a wild drunk. And what mother wants to have her son tossed into the street by the sherriff?
The Question: If the mother rents an alternative apartment or motel room for her son, pays for a month or more in advance, can she legally compel her son to leave immediately if he doesn't want to go? Alternatively if he signs an agreement to stop drinking upon threat of immediate eviction if he breaks the agreement, is such an agreement legally enforceable without further court hearings etc? If he is obviously drunk, could she call the sherriff to have him removed, using the broken agreement as justification for police action?
If no authoritative answer is available here, what type of legal assistance would be most helpful?
The mother owns her home and has no rental agreement with her son. She has told her son he needs to move out. She even rented him a motel room for a few weeks and had some friends escort him there. He begged to return and promised to stop drinking. She let him come home, but he has relapsed and things are back to where they were. He now refuses to leave again.
The mother understands she can go through a formal eviction process, but that would take at least a month. She also fears what might happen if the son gets belligerant or even more destructive in his drunken stumbles.
A restraining order would then be an option, I suppose, but still takes time which may be too long for a frail woman living with a wild drunk. And what mother wants to have her son tossed into the street by the sherriff?
The Question: If the mother rents an alternative apartment or motel room for her son, pays for a month or more in advance, can she legally compel her son to leave immediately if he doesn't want to go? Alternatively if he signs an agreement to stop drinking upon threat of immediate eviction if he breaks the agreement, is such an agreement legally enforceable without further court hearings etc? If he is obviously drunk, could she call the sherriff to have him removed, using the broken agreement as justification for police action?
If no authoritative answer is available here, what type of legal assistance would be most helpful?
