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Landlord–Tenant Attorneys in Santa Barbara, California

Searching for a tenant rights lawyer in Santa Barbara? Counsel for rentals on both sides of the lease, evictions, deposits, and habitability. This page indexes Santa Barbara's landlord–tenant coverage from the State Bar of California's official roll, with identity-verification markers where available.

Santa Barbara is a city of roughly 88,000, and its landlord–tenant matters are heard at the Santa Barbara County Superior Court: Anacapa Division. The 1929 Santa Barbara County Courthouse on Anacapa Street still hears the south county's civil and family calendars; coastal land use, trust and estate, and hospitality-sector employment matters are local staples.

One date controls everything that follows: unlawful detainer deadlines run in days: a three-day notice starts most non-payment cases, per Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 1161. A tenant served with an unlawful detainer summons has ten court days to respond (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 1167). Security deposits must be accounted for within 21 days of move-out (Cal. Civ. Code § 1950.5). Read the record below with that clock in mind.

This page is the Santa Barbara chapter of the registry's statewide record · Tenant Rights Lawyers in California collects every county and city.

The clock & the court

Statute of limitations

Unlawful detainer deadlines run in days: a three-day notice starts most non-payment cases.

Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 1161

A tenant served with an unlawful detainer summons has ten court days to respond (Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 1167). Security deposits must be accounted for within 21 days of move-out (Cal. Civ. Code § 1950.5).

Court of record · Santa Barbara County

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

Main courthouse: Santa Barbara Anacapa Division, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

For Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara County Superior Court: Anacapa Division.

Court website · Self-help center · Source: The court's official website, read 2026-09-27. Venue depends on the case; legal information, not legal advice.

Landlord–Tenant · Santa Barbara roster

31 active attorneys with an address of record in Santa Barbara list landlord–tenant among their practice areas on the registry, out of 1,035 active attorneys whose address of record is in Santa Barbara.

By count, the practice areas most often listed by Santa Barbara attorneys are business law (220), litigation (199), real estate (186), estate planning (170) and employment (108). A count of listings, not a measure of skill.

4 of the 1,035 have claimed and verified their record here; every other listing is the official record as published.

For 45 of the 1,035 active attorneys in Santa Barbara, the registry holds a firm website published in a language other than English; by count, Spanish (35), de (4), French (3) and Chinese (2). That describes the website, not the attorney's own ability; an attorney's profile says when they have confirmed a language themselves.

Reading the roster in Santa Barbara. Unlawful detainer practice is fast and procedural, so look for attorneys who handle evictions in your county's dedicated UD departments weekly, whichever side you are on. Tenants should ask about fee-shifting clauses in the lease, local rent-ordinance defenses, and legal-aid options given the short response windows; landlords should ask about notice drafting, most lost UD cases fail on defective notices.

Address of record in Santa Barbara