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Neighbor Mows Driveway Edge |
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Dear Ms. Lank: My husband and I owned property where our land stopped at the driveway of a neighbor and my husband was paranoid about the neighbor mowing our lawn that edged the driveway. He was convinced that if they maintained that section, it would become theirs by default. |
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You can reassure your husband that it's very difficult to obtain title to someone else's land just by using it. First off, someone must use it continuously for a number of years, without either any protest from the owner or any permission. In some states they must have been paying the property taxes.Then there's nothing automatic about the process. They have to go to court and convince a judge that the property was abandoned.Your husband could have eased his mind by getting an attorney's advice about simple precautions. I'm not a lawyer, but I've heard that briefly blocking the strip of land would have been enough to assert control and break the period of use, or that he could simply give the neighbor written permission to mow the area and achieve the same thing. |
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Edith
Originally published on June 6, 2006 |
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