There should be a law passed that removes squatters in the US. This should not even be a question in the USA. We have trespassing and breaking an entry but yet squatters are a
Allowed to take over a person’s home. This is unacceptable in the USA.
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Perhaps we can expand the Squatter problem resolution to include the Federal mandate to remove State squatting laws that unfairly redistribute squatted property from legal owners to squatters. There are many laws on state books that allow property to be squatted on for X # of years, and after that time has expired, the squatter can go file paperwork to formally claim said property. This is completely unconstitutional and flies directly in the face of the fourth amendment of the Constitution, prohibiting illegal searches and seizures. If the property owner can legally prove that he/she owns a parcel of land, and this evidence is filed in a courthouse to serve as that proof, then the squatter must somehow counter that proof with his/her own proof (ie: a bill of sale or other written contract) showing claim. If this cannot be done, a formal survey based on public property records, can easily identify the boundary borders and subsequent claim thereof.
It shouldn’t matter if a fence line has been in the same place for 100 years. Whatever the public record states, should be what resolve property disputes and squatter claims, unless it can be proven otherwise. The notion of passing a law that, after X # of years, property lines can be arbitrarily shuffled around in favor of squatters, is complete nonsense – these state laws need to be struck down because they are contrary to the whole concept of individual property rights originally protected under the Constitution, making these state laws, dictates instead, which are null and void. Federal government officials should follow their oath to support and uphold the Constitution, and create a penalties disincentive for states who keep squatters rights laws on the books. Withholding federal monies to states who support squatters’ rights at the expense of legal, provable, property ownership, is probably a good place to start. Just as states complain that the federal government should not interfere in their affairs of state, so should citizens of states complain that state officials are trampling their Constitutional rights as well.
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