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Relating to actions to quiet title of real property based upon the doctrine of adverse possession, and including applicability provisions
Topics:Courts & civil law
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 16, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 22, 2020
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to an action to quiet title of real property based upon the doctrine of adverse possession. The bill provides that in an action to quiet title based upon the doctrine of adverse possession a party claiming title shall prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the adverse possessor has been in hostile, actual, open, exclusive, and continuous possession of the real property under either claim of right or color of title for at least years and that the adverse possessor has paid the property taxes assessed on the real property for the period of possession.
Read the full explanation
For purposes of the bill, “claim of right” means the actual occupation, use, and improvement of the property by the adverse possessor in such a manner as to put the titleholder of the real property on notice as to the adverse possessor’s claim for possession of the real property. The bill applies to actions commenced on or after July 1, 2020, to quiet title based upon the doctrine of adverse possession.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 22, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.
- Sen. Zach Nunn R
- Sen. Tom Shipley REmail
- Sen. R. Taylor
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