Debate, Decision About Definition of "Family" Postponed
A legal battle is under way over whether friends living together violates Eureka's housing law. A restraining order keeps Eureka from evicting the two women. The next hearing with a St. Louis County judge is Jan. 17.
At the heart of a current lawsuit in Eureka is whether two women, who are both single mothers living in the same household, constitutes a "family" versus a renter and subleasee arrangement. A court hearing about the matter scheduled earlier this month was reset for Jan. 17, said the women's attorney Nicholas Higgins. To stop the women from being evicted, Higgins sought the county's protection and filed a temporary restraining order against the city of Eureka. Eureka-Wildwood Patch first broke the news of the debate on Dec. 6: Definition of "Family" Debated in Eureka Eureka resident Alicia Wrob invited her friend, Sheri Clark, to move into the same home at The Villas at Autumn Glen after Clark separated from her husband of 28 years. Wrob …
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Julie Brown Patton
5:55 am on Friday, December 21, 2012
Thank you for bringing up another example, Mike K., of two divorced single-parent men and their children being allowed to live under such an arrangement; that's yet another possibility. more ›