What is the name of your state?Missouri - What are the laws concerning squatters rights in the state of Missouri? If someone has been living rent free on a property but paying the taxes, can this be construed as a form of rent? The actual title to the property is in probate, and nothing has been done to change that since the wife has died. The husband is still alive, but is disabled, and the father had a agreement to let the son and his wife live rent free on the property as long as he paid the taxes. Now the son has died, and the sons wife is trying to sell the property. The original owners, husband and wife were separated, but not legally. The mother lived with the son on the property until she died, but nothing was done to the title, and it remains in probate in her name. After she died, the title will come back to the husband - correct? I guess my question really is - the deceased son never had a will, so his widow really doesn't have any claim to anything. I am the power of attorney to the surviving original owners husband. If she can't claim ownership, she is going to try claiming squatters rights, and I don't think she can. Am I right? Thank you