§ 3335 Holding Over Damages

• •If someone is supposed to take care of property for a kid or because of a life estate (like living in a house until someone dies), they can't just stay there after their job is done.
• •If they stay without permission, they have to pay back the money they made from the property while they were there.
• •This is about being fair to the real owner who should get the property back when the time is up.

Grandma lets her friend live in her house until she dies. After Grandma passes away, the friend stays in the house for another year, renting out rooms to make money, even though the house now belongs to Grandma’s kids.

The friend has to pay Grandma’s kids all the money he made from renting out the rooms for that extra year because he wasn’t supposed to stay or make money from the house after Grandma died.