What happens to my furniture if I am evicted from my home?
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Short answer
Any movable property left in the dwelling at the time of the eviction is deemed to have been abandoned: article 693 of the Code of Civil Procedure then allows the bailiff to sell it for the benefit of the creditor, give it to a charity if it cannot be sold, or otherwise dispose of it. The eviction is announced by a notice of execution served at least five days beforehand, and it is that notice which sets the time limit for removing the property.
In detail
An eviction does not happen without a document. Article 692 C.C.P. describes the one that announces it: "If it involves eviction, the notice must be served at least five days before it is to be executed. It orders the debtor to remove all movable property within a specified time limit or pay the costs incurred for its removal and informs the debtor that if the debtor fails to comply, the movable property will be deemed to have been abandoned."
Two different time limits therefore live in the same document, and they do not start on the same day. The five days run from the service of the notice. The time limit for removing the property is the one specified in the notice itself: it is written on the document, it is not deduced from the Act.
The same article closes certain dates: "No eviction may be carried out on a holiday or during the period extending from 24 December to 2 January."
Upstream, the decision ordering the eviction has a calendar of its own. The table of enforcement time limits published by the Tribunal administratif du logement places all other applications at 30 days from the date the decision became known, and the Tribunal states that a decision of the Tribunal, like any other judgment, may be executed only during a period of ten years from its date; if the creditor lets that period run out, the right is prescribed.
What to document
The dates: of the notice, of its receipt, of each rent payment. A notice is proven by how it was sent; a payment, by the statement that carries it. The condition of the dwelling is photographed · an image carries its date, a recollection does not. And every exchange with the landlord or tenant keeps its timestamp.
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Official sources
- art. 693 du Code de procédure civile (RLRQ c C-25.01) · read on 2026-08-09
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