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Customers Keepers: Pirates, zombies and adversarial possession
“Trespassing plus time equals adversarial possession,” Paul Golden writes in his new ebook, Litigating Opposed Possession Circumstances: Pirates v. Zombies. When somebody has occupied or used a chunk of property as if they personal it for lengthy sufficient, a court docket may decide that they’re the rightful proprietor—no matter what the paperwork says. It is a idea extra popularly mentioned as squatter’s rights.
On this episode of The Fashionable Regulation Library podcast, Golden speaks with the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles concerning the historical ideas underlying fashionable adversarial possession regulation, some quirky state legal guidelines, and why societies would enable land to be transferred on this manner.
Additionally they talk about how the plain that means of phrases reminiscent of “hostile” are modified when utilized in adversarial possession circumstances, and Rawles raises a hypothetical—taken from actual life—of a neighbor’s crooked fence.
Throughout Golden’s first appearance on The Modern Law Library, he defined how the dearth of a written contract might be navigated by a savvy lawyer. In his new ebook, Golden guides attorneys and their shoppers via the finer factors of arguing for and towards adversarial possession claims. He shares among the errors that he’s seen pop up in adversarial possession circumstances and gives recommendation for methods to keep away from frequent pitfalls.
Listeners of the podcast have been given a promotional low cost code for Litigating Opposed Possession Circumstances: Pirates v. Zombies via Might 10. For 20% off, go to the ABA’s online shop and enter LAPC2024 at checkout.
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Paul Golden
Paul Golden is a New York litigator and a accomplice within the regulation agency Coffey Modica’s Manhattan, New York Metropolis, workplace. He has labored for greater than 25 years within the subject of appellate follow, insurance coverage litigation, actual property litigation, industrial litigation and private harm protection. He has efficiently argued dozens of appellate circumstances, together with two earlier than New York’s excessive court docket, the New York State Court docket of Appeals. He has efficiently obtained title to actual property for his shoppers, even in a number of circumstances when his shoppers had no recorded deeds. Golden has additionally written a number of authorized articles for varied publications, taught persevering with authorized schooling courses, and lectured in Japanese regulation colleges. Golden acquired his JD diploma from the College of Illinois School of Regulation and his BFA diploma from New York College, the place he majored in movie and TV manufacturing. He’s now at work on a 3rd ebook—in regards to the litigation over management of probably the most well-known fictional characters of all time. He will be reached at [email protected].
