Homeowner gets justice with squatter.

[95DRGT]

I just found out my dad (whom is in assisted living) has some land out in East Texas. I drove by it last week and there is manufactured home on it and someone actively living on it. Looks like I have similar situation that I have to dig into. I got a property tax bill on it this month and it only lists my dad as owner.

The hits just keep on coming.....

[YALE]

Geez.

[talisman]

I just found out my dad (whom is in assisted living) has some land out in East Texas. I drove by it last week and there is manufactured home on it and someone actively living on it. Looks like I have similar situation that I have to dig into. I got a property tax bill on it this month and it only lists my dad as owner.

The hits just keep on coming.....

Bulldozer time.

[Chili]

From my very layman point of view, it seems to me that the only thing this person had proving residency was the letter from the post office. However the name on that letter was not her exact name. Thus they busted her for trespassing or breaking and entering on a technicality.

Of course now this is a probation violation and it has a lot of publicity behind it. I'm thinking a judge will be more inclined to lock "it" up for a while..

But that was just her/his "government name". lol

[Strychnine]

How in the fuck is there anything like 'squatters rights' in the first damn place?

If I remember right it's a holdover from the gold rush era of the mid 1800s.

[CWO]

Sounds like cockamamie hogwash to me.

[Strychnine]

Sounds like cockamamie hogwash to me.

There's definitely some hornswoggling going on.

[CWO]

This conversation is probably pretty close to how it sounded in the 1800s too.

[Frank]

I just found out my dad (whom is in assisted living) has some land out in East Texas. I drove by it last week and there is manufactured home on it and someone actively living on it. Looks like I have similar situation that I have to dig into. I got a property tax bill on it this month and it only lists my dad as owner.

The hits just keep on coming.....

Sounds like a great place to have a shooting range GTG.

Have you heard this story from here local just this week? You better get down to the courthouse and see what's up with a quickness. Someone stole this lady's house by forging some documents.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/investigations/Woman-Says-Someone-Stole-Sold-Her-Balch-Springs-Home-281829661.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_DFWBrand

[robray5.0]

That fucking she man would be missing all her teeth if it was my house. Worthless n@#$%!

[Sean88gt]

How in the fuck is there anything like 'squatters rights' in the first damn place?

There is also the doctrine of adverse possession. A total mind fuck, but a legal option when you feel like being a piece of shit.

If I remember right it's a holdover from the gold rush era of the mid 1800s.

It goes back further than that and has involved man forms. Van Valkenburgh v. Lutz is the seminal case that discusses AP.
Pierson v. Post was one of, if not the first, major case regarding possession. Even though it dealt with a fox and hunting, it lays the ground work for property case law.

[JimD]

Bulldozer time.

x2 then tell em to come get their shit when it quits burning.

[Sinner]

Nice!!

[564826]

Winning!

[SS Junk]