A landlord asked me the above question, to which I had no answer, as I've (thankfully) not come across anything like it previously. I'm as curious as he is. The situation is as follows:
One of the two tenants on the AST has recently died. He wants to seek possession using Section 8 ground 1 (because it was his former home and he wants it back). He's worried that if he files paperwork with just the name of the surviving tenant, accompanied by a copy of a tenancy agreement with two tenants named on it, then his claim will be rejected as incorrectly completed, or that if he files paperwork with two tenant names on it then his claim will be rejected because you can't take a dead person to court!!! Given both the cost and the amount of time that waiting for a court hearing is taking at the moment he doesn't want to mess up. Does anyone here know the correct route?
One of the two tenants on the AST has recently died. He wants to seek possession using Section 8 ground 1 (because it was his former home and he wants it back). He's worried that if he files paperwork with just the name of the surviving tenant, accompanied by a copy of a tenancy agreement with two tenants named on it, then his claim will be rejected as incorrectly completed, or that if he files paperwork with two tenant names on it then his claim will be rejected because you can't take a dead person to court!!! Given both the cost and the amount of time that waiting for a court hearing is taking at the moment he doesn't want to mess up. Does anyone here know the correct route?
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