My question involves an eviction in the state of: Alaska.

At 19 years old my mother persuaded me to sign a 1 year lease under my own name. I agreed as her daughter and so her and my niece would not be faced with homelessness. I am now 22.

My mother is not mentally stable (bipolar) and I left the aforementioned premises 6 months ago after physically being threatened by her. I went to the ER but filed no domestic abuse report against her. I roomed with a friend's family for 3 months and for the last 3 months I have been rooming with a different individual.

In early May 2013 my current roommate who had been looking around on court view told me that I had a court date I had not been informed of. They had served the paper to my mother's address and she did not tell me. The breakdown of leading up to the eviction is as follows:

I signed a 1 year lease under my name 3 years ago. We had agreed to pay month-to-month after that lease expired. Up until 6 months ago myself, my niece, and my mother. I have not lived on the premises since November 2012. The owners of the property wanted to sell the house, the worked through an agency "X". "X" gave my mother and niece 30 days notice in March 2013. My mother then went over the head of "X" and persuaded the owners of the house to allow her to pay for the month of April. She paid that month. However at that point "X" abandoned the owners of the house. The issue is while she paid for April, she did not leave at the end of that month and did not pay or make an agreement to pay for the month of May. At that point the owners took ME to court (lease under my name) for May's rent, damages to property that isn't covered with the security deposit, and attorney fees. I'm disheartened, but have come to accept that there's nothing I can do to put this debt on my mother. If anyone knows of some way though please let me know.


The final (hopefully) court day isn't set till the 2nd week of July at which point I will know exactly how much I will owe.

Here's my immediate concern:
My current roommate situation is getting tense. Just personality clashes. My partner and I want to move in to our own place but she has no rental history at all (been living at home while she goes to college) and of course I have this eviction looming over my head and she is having familial disputes as well. Every place I've been looking at has turned me down because I sound "fishy" and "complicated" and "risky". I know I do. But I need a place to live. Nothing big, just no mice or cockroaches... Together my partner and I have worked out our income to pay rent on time and even early and work off this eviction debt once we find out the total amount. But no one is willing to take a chance on us.

Does anyone, anyone, out there have any advice on how my partner and I could make this eviction look less scary? If we pay off the attorney fees we do know the total of will that have any immediate benefit? Any other help?