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 ...

Word has gotten around of the Dallas-Fort Worth man who claimed ownership of a $340,000 house for only $16 through adverse possession. But not many know what adverse possession is or how it works. If ...

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 ...

Picture this: You find out that a portion of your yard that you’ve been using for years is actually owned by your neighbor. You thought you knew where the property line was, but your neighbor had a ...

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 ...

A question that arises with some frequency in our practice is whether a public entity can adversely possess a property interest against another public entity. The general rule of thumb is that a ...

Y. David Scharf and Kristin T. Roy, partners at Morrison Cohen, write that in the City of New York, where real property development has always been, still is, and will continue to focus on upward as ...

Can a tenant claim ownership of a rented property even after staying there for more than three years? The short answer is no. Last year, the Supreme Court ruled that tenants under valid agreements ...