Louisiana uses acquisitive prescription, not adverse possession. Under La. Civ. Code art. 3486, ownership of immovables may be acquired by 30 years' possession with no title or good faith required. La. Civ. Code art. 3473 allows acquisition in just 10 years if the possessor has good faith and just title.
Louisiana's Civil Code governs squatter claims through acquisitive prescription. La. Civ. Code art. 3486 provides that 'ownership and other real rights in immovables may be acquired by the prescription of thirty years without the need of just title or possession in good faith.' The shorter route, La. Civ. Code art. 3473, states 'ownership and other real rights in immovables may be acquired by the prescription of ten years' but requires the possessor to have good faith and just title (a juridical act sufficient to transfer ownership) under arts. 3475-3479. In both cases the possession must be continuous, uninterrupted, peaceable, public, and unequivocal. A short-term squatter with no title gains nothing; an owner removes a non-tenant occupant through the eviction process (La. C.C.P. art. 4701 and following).
No specific statutory penalty. A failed prescription claimant or trespasser is removed by court order through the eviction process; no fine attaches to an unsuccessful possession claim.
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