Legislation enacted last month in New Jersey will allow a residential tenant to collect attorney fees in a successful action brought against a landlord if the landlord has reserved a parallel lease covenant against the tenant.
The law, P.L. 2013, c.206, aims to correct a longstanding legal fiction: the idea that landlords and tenants freely negotiate fee-shifting provisions written into leases in favor of landlords.
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