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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adam Leitman Bailey and John M. Desiderio of Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C., write that a review of adverse possession decisions issued after the enactment of the 2008 RPAPL amendments shows that during ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...