YES.
That depends on the details. If the adverse possessor has met the time requirement for adverse possession the property owner has no defense to the action.
Adverse possession is an option of getting title for real property through possession. This is gaining the ownership through continuous hostile possession which excludes the true owner.
By inheritance from the owner or by adverse possession.
Adverse possession is the possession against the will of the rightful owner to the complete exclusion of the owner. The number of years required to claim adverse possession in Kentucky is 15 years.
Adverse Possession.
Generally, in the United States squatters are trespassers and there are no laws that protect trespassers.Florida, like other states, follows a legal theory called adverse possession. The law of adverse possession evolved from English common law and under it a person could take possession of another owner's property that was lying idle, use and improve it without the owner's permission, and with continuous use eventually could acquire legal ownership.In Florida the time required to establish a valid claim of adverse possession is seven years. The trouble is that if you managed to move into property and improve it for six and a half years the owner could kick you out, keep the improvements and you would have no recourse.
An "interruption" generally refers to a situation in which the true owner takes possession for a time before the adverse possessor's title ripened. Such an event would require the adverse possessor to start the clock all over again.
never had to fight original owner
Briefly, the legal provisions for a claim of adverse possession in Ireland are as follows. The period of possession is 30 years free of any demand for rent for a leasehold property; 12 years possession against a known owner, extended in the case of a minor; 30 years against an unknown owner, a lunatic or the state. In Northern Ireland and the UK a claim of adverse possession requires that a person take possession of the land of another for a statutory period of 12 years.
Yes, if there are no living heirs then the property may be claimed through adverse possession after all requirements have been fulfilled and the statute of limitations has passed for the state where the property is located.
A bank's defense, or any property owner's defense, would be that the adverse claimant hasn't met the state requirements for a valid claim.
First- you cannot claim adverse possession against someone who doesn't own the property. You don't have an adverse possession against your landlord who doesn't own the property but has an adverse possession claim against the owner of the land. According to the minimal facts you provided you don't have any standing to make such a claim. You are using the property with the landlord's permission. One of the elements required to make a claim of adverse possession is that you use the property openly and notoriously (without permission).