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 ...

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 ...

A lawsuit and adverse possession claim that attempted to derail the creation of a homeless services and shelter at the First ...

Y. David Scharf and Kristin T. Roy, partners at Morrison Cohen, write that in the City of New York, where real property development has always been, still is, and will continue to focus on upward as ...