There should not ever be anything even closely resembling “squatter’s rights”.
It’s theft, plain and simple.
The person who bought it, owns it, and it’s his or her prerogative on how that property is to be used.
NOBODY should be able to just come in and take it over and then be rewarded for the theft by being given ownership of it.
Why not? That's exactly what illegals are doing to our country on a mass scale, and we don't seem to be able to do much about that either. Makes me sick.
It’s designed for truly abandoned properties where there might even be a question of some type. What we are seeing today is willful refusal to enforce obvious breaking and entering cases where the slightest investigation would uncover the facts.
Lazy cops just say “it’s civil” rather than make the slightest effort.
The proof? If you moved into that cop’s house with a fake lease while he was at work. You would be instantly arrested by him and his buddies.
I don’t like it. But it’s been part of U.S. law since the beginning, and I guess inherited from British law.