Fence disputes can turn into legal issues, but there are solutions that don't involve filing a lawsuit if your neighbor's ...

Reasons Why Legal Squatting Has Endured Despite Changing Laws Legal squatting, also known as adverse possession, is a phenomenon where individuals occupy land or property they do not own, with the ...

The Supreme Court has upheld a Jharkhand High Court decision that had set aside a first appellate court's decision granting ...

Longhitano, 94 A.D.3d 974 (2d Dept. 2012) (holding that 2008 amendments to the adverse possession statute contained in RPAPL Article 5 are not applicable where claimant alleged right of adverse ...

The group, led by David Ogega Mokua, argues that they have lived on the disputed land openly and continuously for 17 years and are therefore entitled to ownership through adverse possession, as ...

When adverse possession doesn’t apply There are clear limitations to Georgia’s adverse possession law. A claim can’t succeed if: The person had the owner’s permission (as with a lease or ...

FORT WORTH - David Cooper said he tried to follow the law on adverse possession. But he will spend three months in jail, pay a $10,000 fine and try not to get tripped up in a thicket of probation ...

The law of adverse possession historically made it difficult for a party claiming adverse possession of airspace to ultimately succeed since any alleged adverse encroachment would not create a ...

A Houston woman is fighting an “adverse possession” lawsuit filed by a man she claims is squatting in a home that’s been in her family for 70 years. The home is located on Clover St. near ...