Summary of: Ex Parte Torres-Pérez, 2025 TSPR 5
In 2023, Efraín Torres Pérez and Mirka Ivelisse Cabrera Vélez, a married couple, sought judicial recognition of ownership (expediente de dominio) over a parcel of land located in Isabela, Puerto Rico. They had acquired the property in 2011 by virtue of a private contract with the previous owner, Virginia Pérez Aldarondo. Mrs. Pérez-Aldarondo had herself obtained the property in 1951 through a private contract with the owners before her. Together, both owners were in possession of the property continuously, publicly, and peacefully for over thirty years. The property, however, lacked formal registration in the Puerto Rico Property Registry.
