How long before eviction in Indiana?

At a glance

Grace period before a late fee

Not verified

Late fee cap

Not verified

Pay-or-quit notice

10 calendar days

When a tenant does not pay rent when due, the landlord may end the lease with at least ten days' notice. The tenant can stop this by paying the rent in full before the ten days run out. The ten days do not apply if the landlord and tenant agreed to something else. Indiana law also says no notice is needed to end a lease in some cases: when the lease is for a set period of time, when the lease states when the tenancy ends, or when the lease requires rent to be paid in advance and the tenant does not pay it. The ten-day rule therefore applies mainly to month-to-month and other open-ended tenancies. The statute sets no separate rule for a tenant's first late payment. Cities and counties may not regulate lease terms or the rights of the parties to a lease unless a state law allows it. The ten days are counted as calendar days. If the last day falls on a weekend or legal holiday, the period runs to the next day that is not.

Recorded court-stage timing

Not verified

Wait before the writ can be executed

Not verified

Can paying stop it before judgment?

Only in some cases

Can paying stop it after judgment?

Not verified

Lockouts without a court order banned?

Yes

The landlord may not deny or interfere with a tenant's access to or possession of the dwelling unit except as authorized by a court order. The statute names changing the locks or adding a device to exclude the tenant, removing doors, windows, fixtures or appliances, and interrupting or shutting off electricity, gas, water or other essential services as examples of prohibited interference. It carves out one exception: a landlord may interrupt, shut off or terminate a service as the result of an emergency, good-faith repairs, or necessary construction. That exception is not limited to unpaid rent and does not itself let the landlord withhold a service over nonpayment; it applies the same way regardless of why the work is being done. The section does not apply once a dwelling unit is abandoned, which it defines as the tenant having failed to pay or offer to pay rent due under circumstances where a reasonable person would conclude the tenant surrendered possession, and no rental agreement may define abandonment differently.

Record sealing available?

Yes

Right to counsel

Not verified

Fastest lawful timeline

10 daysNot independently verified. Figure from the Eviction Research Network's state eviction timeframes dataset, as of 2026-07-13. We have not yet checked it against the statutes. It is a minimum estimate. No statute sets a court or removal interval, so the dataset counts that stage as zero.