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 ...

Once again, cottage season is upon us—and like the return of the season, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Court) has returned to the well-settled law of adverse possession, which continues to ...

Legal squatting, also known as adverse possession, is a phenomenon where individuals occupy land or property they do not own, ...

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 ...

A lawsuit was dismissed in an “adverse possession” case, a woman said, that nearly cost her a home that had been in her family for more than 70 years.