ROBERT I. LEVY

Attorney & Counselor at Law - A Professional Corporation

(510) 465-0025

BOUNDARY DISPUTES, EASEMENTS, AND NEIGHBORING PROPERTY ISSUES

Real Estate Law

It is very common for neighboring or adjoining properties to develop issues between the owners regarding a variety of topics or issues. Some of the types of issues that can develop include:

  • What are the owner’s responsibilities regarding division fences or property line fences
  • What is the legal effect when one property has a portion of their property fenced in by their neighbor’s fence
  • Easement issues which might include
  • Determining the scope of an easement and whether its scope has changed over time
  • Determining whether easement rights exist or whether they have terminated over time
  • Whether or not easement rights have accrued over time under varying legal theories including for example:
  • Prescriptive easements
  • Easements by necessity
  • The duties of property owners in maintaining and repairing easements
  • Determining the legal effect of an encroachment onto a neighbor’s property or from a neighbor’s property (which is when there is a projection of a building, structure, or other thing on one tract of land onto another tract of land)
  • The legal effect of agreements between neighbors regarding the property lines or easement rights
  • Whether or not a property owner is using their property in such a way to commit a nuisance or trespass
  • Tree issues

The issues that develop and disputes that arise between neighboring property owners can be many. Over the course of the next few weeks I will publish articles in this blog which discuss many of these issues including the legal rights involved, common problems, and ways to deal with some of these issues in California.

I regularly represent clients in California throughout the Bay Area and in the East Bay in varying types of boundary disputes, easement issues, and neighboring property issues. Please keep a lookout for later articles on these issues. If in the meantime, however, you have questions, need a consultation, or need representation by a California attorney regarding these types of issues, please feel free to contact me to arrange for a consultation at (510) 465-0025.