Real Property Legal Questions and Answers
Can A Neighbor With an Access Easement Fill in Property for a Driveway ?
I have a property that I have owned for 20 years that has what the local zoning board calls a pass through right of way on the rear of the property on the deed. However, the right of way exists on paper only, as the property is actually on an undeveloped overgrown bank to a lake that slopes at a 45 degree angle. My neighbors nor want to fill in the property and grade it so ...
08/16/2009 | Category: Real Property » Easements | State: New York | #18102Can an Easement Holder Block Construction of a Road?
Parents deeded a portion of land to child for a house with mortgage. Child has access to his property through an existing road that is on his deed as a temporary access. It has been a road for the past 50 plus years. Because of mortgage guidelines a permanent easement was placed on the deed. There is no road and has never been a road - it is an easement on paper only. Child...
07/21/2009 | Category: Real Property » Easements | State: Alabama | #17696How is Adverse Possession Established in Kentucky?
Adverse possession? We have been living in this home from 2000 till today. We have had an agreed property line between the two homes since purchase. The owner of home (a) lived here before I did starting in or around 1992. The owner of my home (home b) at that time also had the same arrangement of the property line. Home (a) was sold 2 years ago and new owner did say that he t...
07/15/2009 | Category: Real Property » Easements | State: Kentucky | #17556What Are the Requirements for Adverse Possession in California?
In the process of adding onto my property that I have lived in for over 14 years, it was revealed that part of my existing property (bathroom roughly 6 square feet)was encroaching onto my neighbors property. The city I live in will not allow me to continue with my project until this is taken care of. After going down to the records department I discovered that the previous ow...
07/06/2009 | Category: Real Property » Easements | State: California | #17354Prescriptive easement dispute, Nebraska.
In 1973 my aunt bought a farm and sold off 5 acres with no written easement at that time. In 1981 she granted a perpetual easement to the lot which was 30' wide. This easement did not include a portion of the drive that cut across the corner where the lot and the 30' easement intersected. The lot also changed owners in 1981 and my aunt told the new owners of the lot that they c...
06/28/2009 | Category: Real Property » Easements | State: Nebraska | #17224Is a County Worker Guilty of Trespass for Entering a Hole in My Fence?
If I have a fence up and there is an 8 foot opening in it, does that give a county worker the right to trespass?
06/09/2009 | Category: Real Property » Easements | State: Maryland | #16916Where can I find an example of a joint driveway easement for South Carolina?
I need an example of a joint driveway easement for the State of South Carolina. If you cannot find an example for my state, then any example is fine.
06/03/2009 | Category: Real Property » Easements | State: South Carolina | #16859Easment for Landlocked Parcel in Texas
My mother passed away in 2005 and left a Ranch in Stephens County Tx to my brother , sister and myself in equal parts. The will was probated and all three were named as executors. My sister and I wish to sell our 2/3 of the Ranch but a real estate agent told us we need a road easement for land that we cross to get to our Ranch. The owner of this land is agreeable to giving us a...
05/19/2009 | Category: Real Property » Easements | State: Texas | #16711Easement of ingress and egress
We own a piece of rural property in California which has access problems. A neighbor has offered to grant us an easement allowing us to use his private road which extends all the way across his acreage to our property. We need an easement form which we can all sign and record with Mendocino County (a Grant Deed) which will grant us ingress and egress in perpetuity, and be tra...
05/11/2009 | Category: Real Property » Easements | State: California | #16634In Florida who legally is required to maintain the easement to a property?
Easement to property. Who legally is required to maintain the easement? Is it the owner of the property that the easement is on or the property owner that uses the easement? If damages are done to the easement who is required to fix it / Maintain it by Florida Law?
05/04/2009 | Category: Real Property » Easements | State: ALL | #16542