Kentucky · TitleKentucky adverse possession: fifteen years, or seven under a connected record title

An action to recover real property in Kentucky may be brought only within fifteen years after the right to bring it first accrued to the plaintiff or to the person the plaintiff claims through (KRS 413.010). A shorter rule protects an occupant who, alone or through predecessors, has a connected title in law or equity deducible of record from the Commonwealth and has actually occupied the land by settlement under that title for seven years: no action under an adverse entry, survey or patent can then recover the land, and that possession vests title in the occupant or the occupant's buyer, with an extension for claimants who were minors, of unsound mind or abroad in government service when the claim arose (KRS 413.060).