When you buy real estate, including in the form of a house and the land it sits on, it's your private property to do with as you wish. As long as you follow local zoning and building code rules, you ...

In a rescript opinion issued yesterday in Gentili v. Town of Sturbridge (pdf), the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled that a municipality’s acquisition of a prescriptive easement over private property ...

In my last post, “Real Estate Alphabet Soup: D is for Deed” I continued my primer on the “alphabet soup” of real estate. This post continues to stir the “alphabet soup” with the letter “E.” E is for ...

The New World of Prescriptive Easement Cases In their Land Use column, Adam Leitman Bailey and John M. Desiderio discuss how New York appellate courts determine whether or not a party is entitled to ...

Question: We have lived in a rural area of Buckeye for more than 20 years. We want to sell our Buckeye home and get a condominium in Mesa to be closer to our two boys. Our Realtor said that we needed ...

Plaintiffs own residential properties abutting a private road known as “Windmill Lane,” which runs perpendicularly to Further Lane from its southern boundary and terminates near the Atlantic Ocean.

A common occurrence in our area, given the frequent lack of survey monuments, is a neighbor’s inadvertent building over your property line, whether it be a driveway, a fence, a deck or even a portion ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Montana House on Tuesday passed a bill amended to add restrictions to prescriptive easements ...

Picture this: You find out that a portion of your yard that you’ve been using for years is actually owned by your neighbor. You thought you knew where the property line was, but your neighbor had a ...

Senate Bill 354 to change state laws around easements is back where it started. The bill, brought by Sen. Steve Hinebauch, R-Wibaux, seeks to put some constraints on easements. Specifically, the bill ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. HARPSWELL — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday vacated a lower ...

The Idaho Supreme Court heard arguments Friday in a Kootenai County road-easement case that already has prompted a change in state law, but still has left plaintiff Brent Regan without access to a ...