To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government, along with various states, counties and municipalities, enacted legislation and rules regarding residential evictions. On the federal level, Congress initially passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), which included a 120-day eviction moratorium that applied to all rental properties that received federal assistance. Within the first week of May alone, the laws on eviction moratoriums have been upended in many different directions, and the current status of these laws is unclear at best.