From Deseret News archives:
Soldier's family facing eviction
Now the Dexters wonder where their home will be.
On the day before Thanksgiving, Linda Dexter answered a knock on her door. A Utah County constable was waiting on the porch to serve an eviction notice. The family of six now must vacate the rented home they once hoped to make a permanent residence.
At the heart of the family's dilemma is a decision by the landlord to increase the monthly rent from $1,050 to $1,500.
April Summers, who owns the home with her husband, Justin, said Dexter was told in June that they needed her to plan on leaving. Summers said Dexter was then informed in writing in September of the impending increase in rent effective on Nov. 1 if the family wanted to stay in the home.
Summers declined a request by the Deseret Morning News to explain why she and her husband are asking the Dexters to vacate at this time.
Dexter said she turned to the military Judge Advocate's Office for advice and was assured the family was protected under the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act of 1940, which specifies that soldiers and their families qualify for any or all of the following:
- Reduced interest rate on mortgage payments.
- Reduced interest rate on credit card debt.
- Protection from eviction if the rent is $1,200 or less.
- Delay of all civil court actions, such as bankruptcy, foreclosure or divorce proceedings.
Dexter has since signed an agreement with the landlord that delays an immediate eviction but requires the family to vacate the home by Dec. 15.
"Yes, we will be homeless 10 days before Christmas," Dexter said as she cuddled 4 1/2-month-old Conner.
Dexter found out she was pregnant the day before her husband, Staff Sgt. Kevin Dexter, was shipped out earlier this year to Iraq with the 1457th Engineers Battalion 1st Armored Division of the Utah National Guard. What was expected to be a short-term deployment has since been extended to June 2004.
Conner was born just six months after Kevin Dexter left, a welcome child after 12 miscarriages and three other premature births but an additional stress for a mother left behind with a number of medical concerns herself, including a degenerative disease and serious back problems.
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Linda Dexter, her 4-month-old son, Conner, and her other three children are being evicted from their Saratoga Springs home after their rent was raised from $1,050 to $1,500 a month. Linda Dexter says they were assured by the Judge Advocate's Office that they were protected from eviction by the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act of 1940.
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