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 ...

Think your property lines are untouchable in Georgia? Think again. A little-known legal concept called adverse possession could put your land at risk, even if you hold the deed. Under specific ...

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 ...

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 ...