Hrisiktisia or "adverse possession" in Greece

"My aunt's sheep have grazed on my father's land for 20 years". There is a saying, a fool and his money are often parted". The same goes for land in Greece. You cannot sleep on your rights. In brief, if someone in Greece fences, controls, holds, cultivates and possesses your property for 20 years or more, they can file to get title to it. There are many ways to prevent this and to defend against such actions. When we defend these "hrisiktisia" cases, we focus on challenging the requirements of "continuous" "adverse" and "hostile" and have won many such cases in the last 25 years. Also, the law provides additional burdens and requirements for relative co-owners of land, before they can claim hrisiktisia.