#property-rights

#property-rights

I fully expected when we decided to divorce that the house would be half his, even though the deeds were in my name. I had bought it before we met so it was my mortgage, and he would never have been in a financial position to purchase property at any point,

SAN JOSE - For nearly two decades, frustrations between residents of Country View Custom Estates and the city have festered. Residents of the wealthy "restrictive access" Almaden Valley enclave has long sought to install gates around their community, pointing to brazen criminals who have tormented the neighborhood with waves of home invasions, burglaries, robberies, car break-ins, hate crimes, mail and package thefts, and trespassing on their private streets. San Jose's planning department, however, has denied their requests three times - most recently last year.

OpenAI's new Sora 2 can generate movie-quality video from a text prompt. It's a remarkable technological leap and a breathtaking moral one. Reports across Hollywood show that Sora has been trained on massive libraries of film, television and visual media. Those works were created, financed and protected under copyright law. None were offered up as free fuel for an algorithm that now threatens to replace the people who made them.

When anyone wishes to express indignation about an unwelcome encroachment, the accepted metaphor is not, Can you believe So-and-so was in my living room, uninvited, playing my piano?! The expression is, Can you believe this was going on in my own backyard?! Miss Manners mentions this as a reminder that if you want to maintain good relations with the neighbors, you will absolutely have to be considerate, which means: giving notice of your plans; reassuring them that you are available to handle any unintended inconveniences

Canada's supreme court said on Thursday that it would not hear a challenge from the town of South Bruce Peninsula, which is contesting a lower court's ruling that the Saugeen First Nation's reserve was erroneously smaller than promised. In its application to the country's highest court, the town warned that a victory for the Saugeens would risk sowing uncertainty and unpredictability at the core of Canada's system of private landholding.

Adverse possession is a legal doctrine that allows for a person in possession of someone else's real estate to acquire a valid legal title to the property. It requires that possession is hostile, continuous, open and notorious, actual, and exclusive, and must last for a certain period defined by law.

"I wasn't trespassing, I was clearing out her crappy trees," Jacoby told the Boston Globe in a one-line email.

"There should be nobody there." Mike Haskell, owner, emphasizes the shock of finding squatters in his house a day before sale.

"It is blatantly illegal, improper, and violates the United States Constitution, as well as numerous New Jersey laws and case law," the church's attorney, Harvey York, told NJ.com.