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Squatters’ Rights: The Doctrine of Adverse Possession in Australia

Summary by NSW Courts
By Paul Gregoire and Ugur Nedim On her father’s passing in 1999, Mary Willis inherited two houses on a street in the Sydney inner west suburb of Rozelle. These were numbers 5 and 7 on a street, while her brother, Martin, inherited numbers 9 and 11 on that same street. But the pair had been estranged since 1985, and when they saw each other in court in 2002, Martin was aware that Mary had been living in a dilapidated house, a number 55 on a stree…
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NSW Courts broke the news in on Tuesday, April 15, 2025.
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