If someone has been paying the mobile home tax for the past 33 years but does not have the title, do they own the mobile home?
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If someone has been paying the mobile home tax for the past 33 years but does not have the title, do they own the mobile home?
My mother’s mobile home is on my grandmother’s property. My grandmother has been paying the taxes on the mobile home and the property the whole time the mobile home has been on the property (33 years). The title to the mobile home is in my mother’s name. I was just wondering who is the legal owner?
Asked on December 3, 2011 under Real Estate Law, Georgia
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FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
If your grandmother has been paying the taxes on the mobile home that is in your mother's name that is on your grandmother's property, your mother owns the mobile home and your grandmother owns the land upon which the mobile home sits.
From what you have written, there seems to be some sort of an agreement between between your grandmother and mother as to the mobile home. Unless that your grandmother is making a claim of ownership as to the mobile home through some theory of adverse possession title to it is your mother's.
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