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0 pointsaetherson1y ago0 comments

I think that the case that Patrick describes leads straight into the intended case for adverse possession. You need to extend the timeline a litte.

Okay, so Bob owns a house. Bob marries Jane in an ill-advised, quickly ignored ceremony, but never gets formally divorced. Bob sells his house (in a community property state) to Ted. Ted lives in the house for 20 years. Jane dies. Jane's son Rick goes through her stuff, realizes that she was still married to Bob, realizes that Jane had a legitimate claim on the house that Ted has been living in for 20 years.

This is a classic adverse possession situation. Ted has been openly and notoriously living in this house, acting as owner. If Rick presses his claim, it is likely that Ted can win an adverse possession claim (assuming that Ted lives in a place where adverse possession still works the way it basically did in common law).

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.

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stackskipton1y ago

I did gopher work for Title Insurance company one summer. This type of stuff is so common in certain areas. Another common one we saw similar to "X party has claim no one realized" was "Property was passed down generation from generation and now someone wants to sell it and lack of clear title emerges because property is still in long dead grandparents name."

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0 pointsaetherson1y ago0 comments

I think that the case that Patrick describes leads straight into the intended case for adverse possession. You need to extend the timeline a litte.

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.

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