Question

Kenneth finds a home in town that has been abandoned and moves into it. he fixes broken windows, paints the house, tends the yard and garden, and puts his name on the mailbox by the street. he contacts the county office and pays the small property tax each year with cash. the owner of the house has no idea that kenneth is there and so has never given him permission to be there, nor asked him to move out. after a certain amount of time, kenneth may become the owner of the house and land through the doctrine of:

Answer 1

Adverse possession

Step-by-step explanation:

The doctrine of adverse possession is a doctrine which allows for the possession or ownership of a property owned by another individual, after a period of time, as long as certain requirements of the law are met.

From the above statement, it can be said that Kenneth in the question can obtain ownership of the abandoned building after a period of time as he is making the property tax payment accrued to the property.

Depending on the law in the county where the house is located and how long he has been paying the property tax of the property for, Kenneth can become the owner of the property in a year or 2 or 3 as the law states.

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