how to prevent adverse possession
if you are a landowner you can prevent a trespasser from gaining property ownership by taking some easy measures hire a lawyer as soon as you detect signs of trespassing on your land you might need to file a lawsuit to expel the trespasser or a court order to remove an unwanted structure from your land adverse possession vs homesteadingadverse possession is similar to homesteading in practice in homesteading government owned land or property with no clear owner on record is granted to new owners provided they are using and improving it if a homesteader doesn t use the land they can lose it adverse possession can operate in a similar manner by freeing up land with an unclear title for productive use of course adverse possession can also be abused in ways homesteading cannot if there is an informal easement between two farms where one farmer s fence has an acre of the neighbors land in it for example the farmer using it can claim adverse possession to essentially bite off that chunk of land if there is no written easement agreement 