Recent content by Stacy Carroll

We live on a dirt section of a county maintained road. The paved portions of the road have fee simple rights of way, the dirt portion has a prescriptive right of way, 35 feet in width. The old bridge over a creek near our property was condemned in 2014 and closed to all traffic since. That left...

In my area, for many years the utility companies have obtained blanket easements to cross large tracts. They only need or use a strip along their utility and may not care what happens elsewhere on the tract. The blanket deed covered the whole tract, so wouldn't the whole tract, subdivided or...

I understand the question to be asking if someone has a home financed through the VA, can someone else claim adverse possession of part of the property since the VA has a financial interest in the property? Since adverse possession doesn't apply against public property.