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California Landlord-Tenant Law Update — California MCLE, 3 hours

California Landlord-Tenant Law Update covers current California law, professional responsibility, and practice workflow. Delivery, credential, and regulatory-credit eligibility are stated on the course page.

Professional training or exam-preparation material. No CE/MCLE/CPE credit hours are issued.

Learning objectives

  • Explain and apply §1 The Update Method — Why This Field Outruns Its Practitioners.
  • Explain and apply §2 The Tenant Protection Act Architecture — the Statewide Floor at Full Strength.
  • Explain and apply §3 The Deposit Regime Rebuilt — Three Statutes, One Lifecycle.
  • Explain and apply §4 Screening and Selection — the Application's New Law.
  • Explain and apply §5 Self-Check — Part I Holds.

Assessment and timing

Knowledge check plus 2 final exam versions.

Passing score: 70%.

Final timing: 1 minute per question.

Full syllabus

Chapter 1 — The Tenancy's Front Door: Rent Regulation, Deposits, and Selection

  • §1 The Update Method — Why This Field Outruns Its Practitioners
  • §2 The Tenant Protection Act Architecture — the Statewide Floor at Full Strength
  • §3 The Deposit Regime Rebuilt — Three Statutes, One Lifecycle
  • §4 Screening and Selection — the Application's New Law
  • §5 Self-Check — Part I Holds
  • §5.1 The Rent-Cap Workshop — Four Calculations, Worked
  • §5.2 The Exemption Decision Tree — Where Coverage Cases Are Won
  • §5.3 The Deposit Lifecycle — One Tenancy, Worked End to End
  • §5.4 The Screening Packet — Building the Application That Defends Itself
  • §5.5 Case Bench Part I — Four Front-Door Files
  • §5.6 The Client Translations — Saying This Chapter in Plain Language
  • §5.7 The Fee Perimeter Bench — What May Be Charged, Worked
  • §5.8 Buyouts and the Negotiated Exit — the Front Door's Reverse Gear
  • §5.9 The Figure Bank — Part I's Numbers, Collected for Verification
  • §5.10 Rapid-Recall Bench — Part I
  • §5.11 Glossary — the Course's Terms, Fixed
  • §5.12 The Intake Script — the First Call, Structured
  • §5.13 The Small-Claims Bench — Where the Front Door's Disputes Actually Litigate
  • §5.14 The Co-Tenancy Matrix — Multiple Names on One Lease
  • §5.15 Spot-Issue Bench — Part I in Twelve One-Liners

Chapter 2 — The Occupied Tenancy: Habitability, Operations, and the 2026 Statutes

  • §6 The Habitability Architecture — the Old Doctrine's New Statutes
  • §7 Rent Operations — Increases, Notices, and the Fee Perimeter
  • §8 Entry, Privacy, Retaliation, and the Conduct Perimeter
  • §9 The 2026 Statute Bench — This Edition's New Law, Gathered
  • §10 Self-Check — Part II Holds
  • §10.1 The Habitability File — Both Sides' Build, Worked
  • §10.2 The Conduct Bench — Entry, Retaliation, and the Bright Line, Applied
  • §10.3 The 2026 Counseling Bench — the New Statutes, Applied at the Desk
  • §10.4 The Local Layer — Ordinance Practice Without a Map Error
  • §10.5 The Disaster Playbook — the Statute's Checklist as an Office Protocol
  • §10.6 The Special Tenancies — Boundary Notes for the General Practitioner
  • §10.7 The Operations Calendar — the Occupied Tenancy as an Annual Rhythm
  • §10.8 Rapid-Recall Bench — Part II
  • §10.9 The Compliance Audit — Selling Part II as a Service
  • §10.10 The Two Practices — Economics and Ethics on Both Sides of the v.
  • §10.11 The Technology Overlay — Portals, E-Notices, and the Managed Platform
  • §10.12 The Insurance Interfaces — the Occupied Tenancy's Risk Ledger
  • §10.13 Spot-Issue Bench — Part II in Ten One-Liners
  • §10.14 The Practitioner's Load — a Wellness Note for a Conflict Field

Chapter 3 — The Tenancy's End: Termination, the Summary Track, and the Office Program

  • §11 The Termination Architecture — Notices That Survive Scrutiny
  • §12 The Summary Track — Unlawful Detainer After the Reform
  • §13 The Defense Architecture and the Endgames
  • §14 The Office Program — This Course's Artifacts, Installed
  • §14.1 The Notice Anatomy — a Three-Day Notice Dissected Line by Line
  • §14.2 The UD Timeline — Sixty Days, Walked
  • §14.3 The Defense Workshop — Building the Answer That Uses the File
  • §14.4 The Stipulation Workshop — Drafting the Field's Most Common Ending
  • §14.5 Case Bench Part II — Three Endgame Files at Full Complexity
  • §14.6 Post-Judgment Realism — Money, Property, and the File's Actual End
  • §14.7 Course Review — Ten Applications
  • §14.8 The Fee Architecture — Who Pays for All This
  • §14.9 The Trial Notebook — the Short Trial, Fully Built
  • §14.10 The Last Word — the Field That Never Stops Amending
  • §14.11 The Review Layer — Appeals, Writs, and the Judgment That Isn't Final
  • §14.12 The Master Index — Every Artifact This Course Built, in Filing Order
  • §14.13 The Final Self-Check — the Whole Course, Closed

Sample from Part I

Chapter 1 — The Tenancy's Front Door: Rent Regulation, Deposits, and Selection California Landlord-Tenant Law Update — a 101PD training course. State Bar of California MCLE provider approval pending; no MCLE credit or certificate is issued. §1 The Update Method — Why This Field Outruns Its Practitioners California landlord-tenant law has become the fastest-moving consumer field in the state's civil practice, and this course opens the way every update course in this catalog opens: with the method, because the figures will move again before the next edition and the method is what survives. The field's architecture has three layers, and every question a client brings runs through all three. The state floor: the Civil Code's tenancy provisions, the Tenant Protection Act's statewide rent cap and just-cause regime, the deposit statutes rebuilt by the 2024-2026 sessions, and the unlawful detainer track the civil-procedure course in this catalog treats as the summary proceeding it is. The local layer: rent stabilization and just-cause ordinances in dozens of cities and counties — frequently stricter than the state floor, never preempted merely for being stricter where the state scheme permits local supplementation, and moving on municipal calendars no state update tracks. The federal overlay: fair housing law governing every selection decision this chapter's screening sections reach, plus the disaster-relief and voucher interfaces that arrive matter by matter. The method this course installs: identify the property's regulatory address (which layers apply to this unit, this owner, this tenancy) before answering any substantive question, because the identical rent increase is lawful in one city and a misdemeanor two blocks away; verify every figure against the current statute and ordinance at the moment of advising, because this course's own figures carry effective dates that prove the point; and calendar the annual re-verification, because the Legislature has amended this field in every session this decade. The scope note: this course treats residential tenancies — the commercial lease's different world appears only where the UD track's procedure overlaps — and it teaches at the practitioner's altitude: what changed, what it requires, what the office's artifacts must now say. §2 The Tenant Protection Act Architecture — the Statewide Floor at Full Strength The 2019 Tenant Protection Act (the AB 1482 regime) established the statewide rent cap and just-cause architecture, and its amendment era — most consequentially the 2024 amendments — converted its soft spots into enforcement surfaces. The rent cap: annual increases on covered units are limited to five percent plus the regional change in the consumer price index, with an absolute ceiling of ten percent — the lower of the two formulations governs, the regional CPI component is published annually and varies by metropolitan area, and the practitioner's habit is verification of the current regional figure at every advising, never recitation from memory. The cap runs with the twelve-month period, counts all increases within it in the aggregate, and governs gross rent — the labeled "amenity fee" that functions as rent is rent for the cap's purposes. Just cause: once

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