On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 06:15:55 +0000 (UTC), in misc.consumers.house
(D. Gerasimatos) wrote:

In article . com,
FOM wrote:

This (from :http://www.lectlaw.com/files/lat05.htm)

If someone erects a fence on a boundary line, the fence remains that
person's unless, or until, the neighbor uses the fence--which in most
states means until the neighbor actually encloses her property.

If someone encloses his property, using an already existing fence on
any side, most state fence laws require that he pay the other owner for
the value of the fence. In other words, he must actually buy a share of
the fence. Then he becomes a co-owner of the boundary fence. California
describes this as a refund to the other owner of a just proportion of
the value of the fence at that time.(16) Many states set the required
payment at one half of the value of the existing fence to the other
landowner.


So you want him to pay you? I'd tell you: "I'll see you in court."
Maybe you'd win, but I wouldn't pay you a dime without seeing a judge.
Is it really worth it to you? You sound like kind of an asshole. You
were going to pay for the fence in entirety whether or not your neighbor
enclosed his property.


Dimitri


My old neighbor attached his fence to ours and even knocked down one of our
poles (it was getting rotten) without telling us.. but you need to get along
with your neighbors.. we were upset about the pole but not about him attaching
his fence to the exisiting one. I don't see what there is for this person to
get upset about really. Take the first person's advice and be neighborly.