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Quick and dirty version: Had a written caretaker agreement. Got served a 45 day eviction notice when my wife was due in 42 days. An hour later my wife began going into early pre-term labor that caused us to be med-vacuated to another hospital and baby will have to spend time in the ICU.
Long version:
I (34M) and my wife (29F) have lived on a farm in Hawaii for 4.5 years. I have always paid for my rent by taking care of all the work the farm requires.
Around a couple years ago, the ownership of the farm changed, but my rental terms remained unchanged. It was a good set up as both owners never lived in Hawaii, and for a multi-acre property with lots of produce and maintenance, they only need worry about their vacations to the farm.
My wife and I got married in 2021, and we were waiting for a stable home and stable income before beginning a family. I earned a teaching license in February this year, and with a solid job with a solid salary, I got my wife pregnant like she's always wanted.
Her pregnancy had been going awesome. Was due in december. Zero complications, She continued to work. We had a great gender reveal party and had the best licensed midwife on the island setting us up for a beautiful home birth... and then we got the news...
Honestly it blind-sighted me like Luke learning he's Vader's son. The landlord had played us like Hendrix on his guitar saying they wanted us to continue to live on the farm forever, we were such amazing people, not to think of them as a 'landlord', to make the house all our own and they would build their home in the back of the property, they would even leave the farm to us in their will (I never believed that part).
We had to vacate in 45 days when my wife was due in 42 days.
The landlord was on island and served us the notice at 530pm, and within an hour my wife started having contractions. She thought it was lower pain from crying so much, but by the next morning, it was still there and off to the ER we went.
Fast forward 5 days (now)...
Wife and I got flown to a major hospital, and has been in early labor for almost a week and has had an epidural for 2 days. They're about to give her pertosin (however you spell it) to speed up labor. The staff have been amazing but it's been difficult for us to come to terms with the change in birth plan. Having to up and leave our pets and home for weeks, worry about where to go, and more things have amounted to so much shock and stress.
I have been a good husband/father keeping my wife focused on labor while I work out logistical and legal stuff. The landlord is also an attorney who has threatened us with legal action and has tried going to big lengths to try to evict us immediately. I have spoken to multiple police officers who have all been great and asserting our tenants rights. Confirmed that we have done nothing wrong and we have 45 days.
Reflecting on everything that has transpired makes me wonder do I have a viable lawsuit case against my landlord for discriminating against us based on pregnancy/childbirth and claim it as a traumatic distressful situation caused by her actions?
PS: The landlord in the past has openly claimed about how much they 'hate kids' and when they served the eviction notice they said 'when the baby comes, you won't be able to care for the farm.'
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