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 ...

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Adverse possession allows a person, like a squatter, to gain ownership of land owned by someone else when certain requirements are met. The requirements for an individual to claim adverse possession ...

Retail, commercial, and industrial property owners need to be diligent about policing their property boundary lines to avoid losing valuable property rights to an encroaching neighbor. The doctrine of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...