On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:45:07 -0600, in misc.consumers.house "Clark W. Griswold,
Jr." wrote:

The practical result is that you aren't going to force your neighbor to pay for
part of your fence after the fact, and if you put it right on the boundary, you
aren't going to stop him from doing whatever he likes with the fence on his
side. That includes painting it shocking pink or attaching additional fencing to
it.


In my state the neighbor could force you to put your fence 5 feet back from the
boundary.