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Review Local Law. A common shared expense between neighbors is having a shared fence. Conflicts can quickly arise between neighbors over who is responsible for the fence’s maintenance, including ...
If your neighbor has taken a few feet of your land when building his fence, you can take steps to take back your land. A caveat, however; make sure you know where your true property boundaries are.
Fence viewers then determine what type of fence should be built and how construction and maintenance costs will be shared, as well as establish a portion of the fence for each neighbor to maintain. [13] In 2007 the Nebraska Legislature repealed the law, sending the responsibilities of fence viewers to local courts. [14]
Some branches fall on the property line, and some in the neighbor’s yard. This has never been an issue until the neighbor installed a fence on the property line. Now the neighbor says if I ...
A spite wall in Lancashire, England, built in 1880 by the owner of the land on the left, in reaction to the unwanted construction of the house on the right [1]. In property law, a spite fence is an overly tall fence or a row of trees, bushes, or hedges, constructed or planted between adjacent lots by a property owner (with no legitimate purpose), who is annoyed with or wishes to annoy a ...
Depending on the jurisdiction, other things like fences, landscaping, septic tanks, and various potential hazards or nuisances might be regulated and prohibited by setback lines. Setbacks along state, provincial, or federal highways may also be set in the laws of the state or province, or the federal government .
Laws regarding liability are more clear in some states than others, but generally speaking, when a tree falls during a storm it’s considered an act of nature.
The Constitution of Texas is the foremost source of state law. Legislation is enacted by the Texas Legislature, published in the General and Special Laws, and codified in the Texas Statutes. State agencies publish regulations (sometimes called administrative law) in the Texas Register, which are in turn codified in the Texas Administrative Code.