# What is the worst that can happen to a landlord if they get taken to court?

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**Category:** Legal - Real Estate & Housing\
**Created:** [September 2, 2020, 10:27am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/what-is-the-worst-that-can-happen-to-a-landlord-if-they-get-taken-to-court/196116 "2020-09-02T10:27:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![curiousteacher](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@curiousteacher](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/curiousteacher)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 10:27am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/what-is-the-worst-that-can-happen-to-a-landlord-if-they-get-taken-to-court/196116/1 "2020-09-02T10:27:45Z")

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I think worst case is that they pay the money they owe you anyway, correct?

I doubt they are likely to have to pay any kind of extra fine.

In other words: they probably do not care (aside from the waste of time of attending court).

I doubt it would somehow get the tax man’s attention (in case they are not paying tax or doing other illegal things).

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**Author:** ![tempogain](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/tempogain/32/264650_2.png) [@tempogain](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/tempogain)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 10:30am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/what-is-the-worst-that-can-happen-to-a-landlord-if-they-get-taken-to-court/196116/2 "2020-09-02T10:30:22Z")

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A post was merged into an existing topic: [Process for taking my former landlord to court](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/process-for-taking-my-former-landlord-to-court/196114)

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**Author:** ![tempogain](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/tempogain/32/264650_2.png) [@tempogain](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/tempogain)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 10:30am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/what-is-the-worst-that-can-happen-to-a-landlord-if-they-get-taken-to-court/196116/3 "2020-09-02T10:30:23Z")

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