Admittedly, I am not a live blogger. However, I just finished watching the Senate Judiciary Open Hearing on what is now SHB 1349 on TVW. And because I had sent along my previous post to the office of the bill’s sponsor WA House Rep. Jeff Morris of the 40th District, I felt a little bit
Congratulations Washington State! Adverse Possession Bill HB 1026 Has Been Reconciled & Signed Into Law
Though I have been an inactive bloger since early April, the Washington Legislature and the Governor have been busy. In addition to wrestling with the hard decisions attendant to Washington’s budget, our leaders have continued to work on the adverse possession bill. And guess what? De de le daa … with two clicks you can view it from here!
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Adverse Possession’s ESHB 1026: The House’s Legislative Dilemma
Both Washington’s House and Senate have recently overwhelmingly adopted newly proposed sections to alter adverse possession, the primary law used to adjudicate land disputes. One problem, the House and Senate versions are similar with respect to two rather insignificant sections, but completely different with respect to the purport of this bill, which is to make the law of adverse possession
ESHB 1026 Post Senate Judiciary: Strike One! Ball One!
The Senate Judiciary Committee gave ESHB 1026 an executive hearing and passed it out of committee today. Not hard to see what happened. Particularly when supplemented with a viewing of the hearing on Washington’s equivalent of C-span here.
[Note: to view only adverse possession’s ESHB 1026’s executive session, select the March 25th date and then scroll into the
Good Faith: Then & (Hopefully) Now
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding ESHB 1026. In that testimony and in my follow-up answers to questions posed by Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Adam Kline (D) – 37th Legislative District and Senator Mike Carrell (R) – 28th Legislative District, I advocated for the addition of
Good Faith Element v. Clear, Cogent, and Convincing Evidence
In my January 2011 Bar News article A Good Faith Attack on Land Thieves, I suggested that the best method to attempt to eliminate land theft allowed under the current laws would be to add the element of Good Faith to adverse possession’s 10 year common law statutory interpretation of RCW 4.16.020.
Well, today at