Gain Immediate access to our Essays
FREE access exchanged for your work, or pay £9.99
Words: | Submitted: Mon Dec 22 2003
... they will have fulfilled the necessary time period of 12 years. However there are two points we need to bear in mind, firstly under the recently proposed revisions to the legislation regarding adverse possession the couple would need to apply for possession after 10 years at which point the current true owners would be notified of the intentions of the possessions and be given the chance to act accordingly. Secondly in this scenario the couple are described as a "celebrity couple...intending to use the property as an informal hide away." If you were representing the true owners you may wish to research the permanence of the residency. Indeed whether or not this was in effect a holiday home only visited as a temporary retreat in between celebrity duties, in which case the entitlement would be void. Firstly the owner of the property in question has to be dispossessed or must ...
FREE access exchanged for your work, or pay £9.99