[metmom]

*Squatters rights* should NEVER have been a thing to begin with.

It’s theft and theft should never be given a pass.

If you want property, buy it yourself.

[nickcarraway]

It may be hard to completely get rid of it - it’s been around since the early Middle Ages. I don’t know if Congress would vote for a law.

[Alberta's Child]

I am working right now on a “squatter’s rights” situation with a client. It’s a strange case involving multiple adjacent properties and an HOA, where the boundaries were changed several times over more than 30 years … until they got to a point where my client now owns two adjacent properties with one HOA-owned lot in between them that is only accessible across his property.

He’s been involved in a dispute with an HOA board member over an unrelated matter, and the HOA guy has been trying to trespass across my client’s property to get to the HOA lot — just to be an intrusive @sshole.

My client’s lawyer has told him that he can file to get possession of the HOA lot under the state’s adverse possession (“squatter’s rights”) law if he has exclusive access to it for 35 years and he maintains it as if it belongs to him.

THIS is a legitimate application of a “squatter’s rights” law, in my honest opinion.

[caww]

Well — until they actually are arrested for their crime they will just keep doing it. Moving from one property to the other.