The Prescription

This story is for everyone who owns or aspires to own property anywhere in the United States.Every day, in every state of America, by law, any private citizen can exercise prescription and adverse possession to take the private property of another. Additionally, government entities exercise a different process, condemnation by right of eminent domain, to acquire property. Unlike peaceful acquisitions, the currency for prescription and adverse possession is continuous, open, and notorious hostility.

Betty shares her personal story about easement claims, prescription, and adverse possession. Her story is one of triumph over odds that seemed insurmountable. She presents the war waged by "friendly" neighbors and why, despite the odds, she moved forward, devoted, to the restoration and preservation of a family property. In these pages, you find the transfiguration of victimization into a cause that gives voice to millions otherwise invisible and suffering in silence. This journey is proof that purpose driven vision can overcome confusion with wisdom, neutralize hostility with principle, disarm disappointment and despair with service, achieve true peace with patience, victory with vigilance, and perfection with perseverance.

About the author
After more than twenty-five years as a professional in a Fortune 100 company, B. Smith Hearn found inspired purpose in returning to her hometown to renovate and preserve a family business property, deliver fair housing, and facilitate first-time home ownership to others. She was shocked to find her property rights threatened by unsubstantiated easement, prescription, and adverse possession claims. She researched U.S. laws and practices that jeopardize the rights of property owners everywhere in the U.S. She uses her hands-on experience, extensive research, and surprising discoveries to educate property owners across the U.S. about potential dangers within existing real-estate laws and about protecting their real estate from hostile takings by private individuals and businesses.