Jason Friedman cleaned the putrid pool, paid thousands of dollars for a new fence, changed the locks and moved his family into a 3,400-square-foot Acreage home that wasn’t his. Claiming adverse ...
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 ...
THE MOST BASIC EXAMPLE of adverse possession is when a landowner fences in land that belongs to a neighbor. This is trespassing, but if a long enough period of time passes without the neighbor ...