I signed a lease last August with two other girls. One of them moved out of the apartment within a month. The other one has been living with her sister (whose name is not on the lease). Also, her husband comes iin the apartment every two or three weeks for 3-4 days and has sometimes even stayed for almost a month. Her sister and her husband, both have the key to the apartment and her sister gets her mail here itself and all her belongings are here only.

Now she is telling me that her parents are also going to come here. Her father will leave in 2-3 weeks but her mother will stay till September. The lease ends onAug 31st. I can't live with a big family for over 6 weeks and also didn't want to stop her parents from moving in. So I decided to quietly move out of the apartment. Then, my roommate threatened me that she will drag me to the court if I move out without paying the rent for the rest of the lease period. I don't get it. Why should I pay half the rent when she, her sister and her parents are living here (even though she says they will stay in her room only, which is impossible). What legal situation am I in under these circumstances. If my roommate does try to sue me for the rest of the rent, do I have a point of saying that her whole family was living there??? Please help.

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