Property ownership can feel straightforward until you learn that someone might gain legal rights to a part of your land simply because they’ve occupied it for years without your permission. It may ...

Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more than 20 years of experience in various areas including investing, insurance portfolio management, finance and accounting, personal investment and financial ...

Question: We have lived in our Peoria home seven years. There has never been a fence or even rocks to mark the boundary line for our backyard. When we moved into this home our neighbor’s swing set was ...

The PA Commonwealth Court recently held that a claim of adverse possession could be brought against a municipality when the municipality’s only use of the property during the statutory period was to ...

Squatting in a residential property became an offence in September 2012, but it will be up to the courts to determine whether an existing trespasser will be able to acquire title by adverse possession ...

Because basing major life decisions on this guy is a terrific way to go about raising a family. According to the Palm Beach Post, Friedman, 37, filed the adverse possession claim — an antiquated ...