What if someone claims that they own your land?

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤 𝙞𝙛 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙮, 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙪𝙥 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙨 “𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙪𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙, 𝙬𝙚 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩! 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙪𝙨.”

How do you protect your family? What are the laws related to this? This is exactly what happened to Rachel who said:

“Atty, we have a land na binili ng lolo at lola ko more than 20yrs ago and meron po kaming deed
of sale sa lupa na yun.

Namatay na yung grandparents ko pati yung daddy ko na only child nila and ngayon biglang may naghahabol na kukunin daw yung lupa kase dinonate daw sa kanila.

Matagal na din patay yung owner and sa pagkakaalam ko patay na din yung tao na involved sa sinabing donation. Bali family nalang yung naghahabol sa lupa. Sa ngayon kase kami ang nagbabayad ng tax and na sa amin din yung papers nung lupa na yun, ano po pwede gawin sa kanila na legal action? Thank you so much po. God bless!”

𝙎𝙤 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙙𝙚, 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩:

*𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙘𝙠 𝙞𝙛 𝙖 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚?
*𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙙 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣.
*𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙙𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨?
*𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙍𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙡 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣?

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If you’re having issues transferring your land, we have something that can help. We recorded an FAQ session where we answered the most common questions related to real property transfers.

You can access the recording by going to https://legalaccess.ph/ and choosing the transferring of land topic there.

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