Averse Possession Explained
Squatters can become property owners if they meet specific legal requirements. How to protect your real estate.
Homes are meant to be lived in. Fields are meant to be planted. That's the basis for the Old English laws that give us today's legal framework called "adverse possession."
When the real estate owners are absent for a number of years—sometimes decades—while trespassers were living there openly as if they owned it (including performing main...