[WSBARP] Release of bank lien on adverse possession.

Kary Krismer Krismer at comcast.net
Fri Sep 11 13:48:34 PDT 2020


Would a title company remove the exception for the DOT on those facts?  
Seemingly they could rely on the court order rather than needing a release.

Kary L. Krismer
206 723-2148

On 9/11/2020 1:04 PM, Craig Gourley wrote:
> Thank you all. In thus case the AP claim in about 30 years old so 
> predates the DOT. We did serve the bank and they are subject to the 
> award of AP. Problem is that the bank sold the loan after the AP award 
> so we have a new "lender" who was not a party. Normally banks do a 
> partial recon and we have no issues. Here the new lender is not a 
> party and won't respond to our communications .
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> All Lender’s title policies have extended coverage and therefore 
> insurance for AP claims. By suing the lender in the quiet title, they 
> will instantly tender to the title insurer and will get appointed a 
> very reasonable attorney, such as myself, to have the lender stipulate 
> to adverse possession. -Greg
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> *Subject:* Re: [WSBARP] Release of bank lien on adverse possession.
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> I'm not sure Doug's issues matter based on zero research and what my 
> wife claims is a questionable faulty memory.
>
> I believe a grantee under a statutory warranty deed would take subject 
> to the AP claim even if the full 10 years had not passed at the time 
> of transfer.  The AP claimant would merely have to wait for the 
> remaining time to pass.  I don't see any reason a grantee of a DEED of 
> trust would be any different.  If the claim of ownership disappears 
> through AP I think it disappears as to anyone with a claim against the 
> property, or at least anyone claiming through the owner against which 
> the period of AP started.
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> Alternatively, if the 10 years had passed at the time of the recording 
> of the DOT then the DOT may have never attached to the portion.  As I 
> recall it's the date of the expiration of 10 years that matters, not 
> the date of the court ruling that the 10 years passed.
>
> As to Greg's point about title insurance, if the bank has coverage the 
> bank would have little motivation to act and so probably won't act.  
> But does a lender's policy cover AP, or does it matter when the AP 
> claim 10 year period expired? I'm pretty sure owner's policies 
> wouldn't cover an owner when the entire period of AP occurred after 
> they took title.
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> On 9/10/2020 8:02 PM, Doug Owens wrote:
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>     Dear Craig, this is an interesting question.  I have not done any
>     research on the point but it seems to me that the principle behind
>     adverse possession is that the open, notorious and hostile
>     possession for the statutory term should be something that would
>     motivate the person entitled to protect the property interest to
>     take action to eject the trespasser.  Under this principle I ask
>     myself what could the lien holder have done to eliminate the
>     trespass?  And is the lien holder charged with knowledge of the
>     adverse possession such that the lien holder could declare a
>     breach of the deed of trust for the borrower’s failure to protect
>     the title?  On what basis would such knowledge be imputed?  An
>     alternative analysis is that the adverse possessor takes title
>     “subject to” the lien.  At a minimum if the adverse possessor did
>     not serve the lender with the summons and complaint it would seem
>     anomalous that the lien could be invalidated by the award of title
>     through adverse possession.  Good luck.  Yours truly, Doug Owens
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>         On Sep 10, 2020, at 6:47 PM, Craig Gourley <craig at glgmail.com
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>         Listmates, When a party is awarded title to property by
>         adverse possession is the lender lien automatically stripped? 
>         We have an uncooperative lender that refuses to recon the
>         adversely possessed parcel and we really don’t want to file a
>         quiet title over a planter box. However, this small cloud on
>         title is preventing our clkient’s sale of the property.  Thoughts?
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