Adverse possession can be a complex and contentious legal issue in real estate, as it involves determining the rights of the current possessor versus the original property owner. Understanding the ...

In certain instances, an individual can gain possession of your property if they meet specific requirements. The legal term for this is "adverse possession." As squatting incidents run rampant through ...

Adverse possession is a legal doctrine under which a person (the "adverse possessor") trespassing on real property owned by someone else may acquire valid title to it so long as certain common law—and ...

Adverse possession is a legal doctrine under which a person (the "adverse possessor") trespassing on real property owned by someone else may acquire valid title to it so long as certain common law—and ...

A Houston couple living in a Fifth Ward home they do not legally own is fighting to remain there, even as the city says the ...

This decision arose from a “boundary dispute between owners of two parcels of property.” There are two-family homes on both subject properties. The defendant occupies his property, while the ...

In part, the way the West was won was by the employment of the device of adverse possession. Adverse possession is a method of acquiring legal title to real property simply by possessing it for some ...

Think your property lines are untouchable in Georgia? Think again. A little-known legal concept called adverse possession could put your land at risk, even if you hold the deed. Under specific ...

The suit ended in a Lok Adalat compromise decree (30 Nov 2013) acknowledging the appellant’s possession and permitting his name to be recorded in revenue records, after which the Tehsildar referred ...

Amendments to Article 5 of the Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law (RPAPL) that took effect on July 8, 2008, significantly altered the law applicable to adverse possession claims in New York. 1 ...