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In 2024, Alabama passed legislation to have squatters evicted within 24 hours, face felony charges, and 1–10 years in prison. [58] [59] In common law, through the legally recognized concept of adverse possession, a squatter can become a bona fide owner of property without compensation to the
Rusty Adams, a research attorney at the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, described a squatter during the hearing as, “Someone who settles on property without any legal claim or title.”
If that squatter later retakes possession of the property, that squatter must, to acquire title, remain on the property for a full 20 years after the date on which the squatter retook possession. In this example, the squatter would have held the property for 35 years (the original 15 years plus the later 20 years) to acquire title.
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Squats can be used by local communities as free shops, cafés, venues, pirate radio stations or as multi-purpose self-managed social centres. [7] Adverse possession, sometimes described as squatter's rights, is a method of acquiring title to property through possession for a statutory period under certain conditions. [8]
Even though incidents of successful adverse possession are rare and squatters enjoy no legal right to occupy a place, they are entitled to due process rights. If a squatter can prove they have ...
The simplest case is when a country prohibits certain persons from physically leaving. Another common situation is when a person legally goes abroad but refuses to return when demanded by their country of origin. Special cases are when one flees a country as a refugee escaping persecution or, after committing a crime, trying to escape prosecution.