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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Amendments to Article 5 of the Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law (RPAPL) that took effect on July 8, 2008, significantly altered the law applicable to adverse possession claims in New York. 1 ...

A recent case from the 10th Court of Appeals in Waco deals with a question I am often asked: If a fence is built off the property line but has been there for decades and the non-title holding owner ...