Delaware man loses $125,000 property to squatter neighbor after trying to remove goat pen she built on it

Burton Banks says he cannot afford to appeal the decision but hopes this is a warning to others


A Delaware man recently discovered while trying to sell part of the property his family has owned for two generations that his neighbor had taken control of the land, and he has lost possession after the neighbor claimed squatter's rights.

In 2021, Burton Banks tried to sell part of a property his father had left him near Ocean View, Delaware, but found that his neighbor, Melissa Schrock, had erected a goat pen on part of the property and had been using roughly two-thirds of an acre of the property for decades, Delaware Online reported. ---More...

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