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Parents can share mobile home with their grown son

Most of the names in these stories have been changed to protect privacy.

Circumstances forced Randall Placht to move into his parents’ mobile home. He has a psychiatric disability and needed a place to live. When the seniors-only mobile home park told him he had to move because he was not a senior, Mr. Placht called the Oakland office.

An attorney in the Oakland office told Mr. Placht and his parents about his legal rights. She told them that Mr. Placht can live with his parents because he needs them for care, support and supervision.

Then she wrote a letter to the mobile home park’s attorney, setting out Mr. Placht’s rights. She also helped Mr. Placht get a physician’s letter supporting his need to live with his parents in their home.

Mr. Placht believed that everything was resolved. But, months later, members of the park’s homeowners association and their attorney approached him again. They harassed and threatened Mr. Placht to make him leave the park. They demanded that he provide an annual confirmation of his disability and a copy of his psychiatric treatment plan if he wanted to stay.

Mr. Placht’s attorney wrote more letters on his behalf. She got another physician’s letter for him. Then she represented Mr. Placht at an informal hearing before the homeowners association’s board of directors.

At the hearing, Mr. Placht refused to provide a copy of his treatment plan. However, the homeowner’s association has not followed through on its threat, and the harassment appears to have stopped.