| Release from a Lease
This may turn out to be a very confusing question, but I hope that I can get an answer (or perhaps just help finding the answer).
I'm eighteen years old, and am living with my mother and younger sister in California. Up until a couple months ago, we were living in an apartment with my mother's exboyfriend. My mother and he had signed a lease together, and we later moved out. We ended up moving back in (before moving to the place we are currently in). Upon moving out for the second time, my mother asked the property managment company what she would need to do to remove herself from the lease (leaving her exboyfriend the sole leasee). The woman there told her to simply give them a thirty-day notice, and she would be removed. My mother did just that, thinking that things were fine. Recently (just the other day, in fact), my mother's exboyfriend recieved a sixty-day notice. That notice was directed to my mother and he (my mother was listed first, which we found to be weird as well). My mother called the property management office, and they said that she had indeed given a thirty day notice (it was in the computer system) and wasn't going to be held responsible for the money owed (you see, that was the reason for the sixty-day notice). My mother also called the lawyer, and the lawyer informed her that she SHOULD have been held responsible but because the property mangement already said it was fine...then nothing would be done against her. My mother asked the lawyer for a written statement saying that she was not responsible for the money owed, and the lawyer refused...Telling her that she was legally responsible, and he just wasn't going to give her the written statement.
Knowing all that, my question is this: Is my mother legally responsible for the money owed?
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