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Heywood J

(2,515 posts)
1. Sounds like more Sovereign Citizen crap to me.
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 10:24 PM
Feb 2012
County clerks in North Texas said they have seen such a spike in adverse possession filings that they've stopped accepting the claims without prosecutors' approval. In a handful of cases, squatters entered homes that weren't abandoned, but left empty for a few days.

But it takes a long time to establish those rights, typically 10 years in Texas. Until then, anyone trying to stake claim to a piece of property owned by someone else is just a squatter, Rider said.

This sounds like the same shit we heard last year about straw men and bogus accounts, plus clogging up county clerks with paperwork in an attempt to seize property. If it were the people who lived there squatting in their own (foreclosed) homes, I'd feel differently but this is crass opportunism at best. The people squatting in homes that aren't abandoned need to be charged with home invasion - the literal definition of it.

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