CACI No. 4900

[Name of plaintiff] claims that [he/she/ nonbinary pronoun] is the owner of

[briefly describe property] because [he/she/ nonbinary pronoun] has obtained

title to the property by adverse possession. In order to establish adverse

possession, [name of plaintiff] must prove that for a period of five years,

all of the following were true:

1. That [name of plaintiff] exclusively possessed the property;

2. That [name of plaintiff]’s possession was continuous and

uninterrupted;

3. That [name of plaintiff]’s possession of the property was open and

easily observable, or was under circumstances that would give

reasonable notice to [name of defendant];

4. That [name of plaintiff] did not recognize, expressly or by

implication, that [name of defendant] had any ownership rights in

the land;

5. That [name of plaintiff] claimed the property as [his/her/ nonbinary

pronoun] own under [either] [color of title/ [or] a claim of right];

and

6. That [name of plaintiff] timely paid all of the taxes assessed on the

property during the five-year period.

New November 2019