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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Finders keepers, right? You have probably heard of squatters' rights, or the idea that someone can find a place and live in it long enough to claim it legally. As lovely as it would be to find a home, ...

Court Finds Summary Judgment Inappropriate for Adverse-Possession Case "Although summary judgment is certainly not precluded in adverse-possession cases, adverse possession raises predominantly ...

The Supreme Court of Ohio recently ruled in NC Ents., L.L.C. v. Norfolk & W. Ry. Co., Slip Opinion No. 2026-Ohio-1429 (the “NC-Norfolk Case”) that Appellee’s lawn maintenance on Appellant’s parcels ...

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 ...