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 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 ...

Adverse possession is a legal concept that occurs when a trespasser, someone with no legal title, can gain legal ownership over a piece of property if the actual owner does not challenge it within a ...

I'm 81 and stuck in a nightmare dispute over a small area of land. The land, I believe, is mine by right of adverse ...

Q. A few years ago, my neighbor put up a fence, and I think it encroaches onto my property by a few inches. Does my neighbor have a claim for adverse possession for part of my land? A. There is an old ...

“Man, like a tree in the cleft of a rock, gradually shapes his roots to his surroundings, and when the roots have grown to a certain size, can’t be displaced without cutting at his life,” wrote U.S.

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 response to national outrage over an infamous adverse possession case in Boulder, Colorado, in which a lawyer and a judge intentionally took their neighbors’ undeveloped land through adverse ...

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 ...