Eviction Future Rent: Accepting future rent, divests the court of jurisdiction in an eviction action in Ohio. The courts are split on what the definition is of “future rent payments.” Some courts define it to include a payment of any period subsequent to the three-day eviction notice. Other courts define it as a rent payment for any period of occupancy that is after the date of the landlord’s acceptance of the payment. What if the tenant deposits future rent in the Landlord’s bank account, does that prevent the Landlord from proceeding with the eviction. It does according to Twelfth Appellate District Court of Ohio in Ebbing v. Mathis, 2013-Ohio-3880 opinion issued September 9, 2013. In the Ebbing Case the tenant presented evidence that he deposited his rent in the Landlord’s account. The Landlord refused to check his account, contending that he did not want to be assumed to have accepted the late, but future rent. He claimed that since the deposit involved no action on his part, he had not accepted the payment. The appellate court disagreed. The appellate court pointed out that the Ebbing rental agreement provided that the tenant was to deposit his rent checks into the landlord’s account. The appellate court stated that it has long been settled in this state that when a rental agreement provides that the tenant is to pay rent by depositing the payments into the landlord’s bank account, the tenant’s depositing of the rent into the landlord’s bank account constitutes acceptance of the rent by the landlord unless the landlord has given the bank contrary instructions.