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Real Estate Litigation Lawyer in Glendale, AZ

Real Estate Litigation Lawyer

A Quiet Title action addresses any impediment to clear, marketable, insurable title to your real estate. An impediment or defect can show up in a sale or loan transaction when the title company discovers a “cloud” on the title. If it cannot be cleared, a quiet title action is necessary. Or a quiet title action can be the remedy for an encroachment, adverse possession or prescriptive easement.
Encroachment is quite common, even in platted subdivisions. Usually it is the form of a misaligned common wall between adjoining neighbors' fences. The firm has resolved many of these problems by drafting an easement for the encroaching neighbor. Both owners must sign the easement and then it is recorded.
An encroachment that is not amicably resolved may result in a quiet title action by the encroached upon owner demanding the encroaching owner be ordered to remove the fence or wall or that title to the portion encroached upon be quieted in the offended owner's name.
Adverse possession can be the consequences of an encroachment that is in existence for ten or more years. Adverse possession means that a person acquires title by possessing or using the land. It can be both an affirmative claim, or a defense to a quiet title action, depending on the circumstances. The elements of adverse possession are generally that it must be actual, open and notorious, hostile (without permission) continuous, exclusive under a claim of right adverse to and inconsistent with any claim of right by the opposing owner for a period of ten years or more. The ten year element can be met by being "tacked" on to previous owners' periods of possession.
Hostile does not mean violence or aggression, legally it means that the opposing owner did not grant permission, license or otherwise approve the use or encroachment. By Arizona statute, if the elements are satisfied and ten years has elapsed, legal title vests as a matter of law to the adversely possessing owner. Of course, this does not mean title to the portion automatically issues, it means that the party who pleads and is entitled to the ten year bar of A.R.S. § 12-526(A) is deemed by law to be possessed of full title to the encroached property precluding all claims, pursuant to A.R.S. § 12-527. (See more detail in the Blog: Real Estate Side Bar)
A prescriptive easement is similar in effect to adverse possession. The common example is the use of a path over and through a parcel of land by the public for a sufficient period of time converts to a right of easement for continued use of the path. This area is complex and replete with varying factual contexts addressed by the courts.
With both adverse possession and prescriptive easements, a property owner should be alert to possible loss of property rights with respect to the adverse use. There are steps to take to defeat adverse possession or prescriptive easement loss before the rights vest under the statutes of limitation. Please call our office if you would like to consult with Mr. Dye regarding these real estate issues.
Partition is a statutory remedy by which one owner may force the sale of the property absent the participation of the other owner(s). The statute, A.R.S. §12-1211, et seq., is designed to allow one or more owners to compel a sale of co-owned property where the other owners refuse to agree to a voluntary sale. (See more detail in the Blog: Real Estate Side Bar)

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