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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Feeling entitled, or deserving or just plain covetous? You have discovered that you are encroaching on your neighbor's property. In California, two inconsistent doctrines can apply to allow you to ...

An easement is a common finding during a title search, the crucial step in the homebuying process that confirms the seller’s legal ownership of the property and uncovers any claims or restrictions ...

An easement — an interest in the land of another entitling the easement owner to a limited use or enjoyment of another’s land — can be established by a variety of theories. Among them are: Express ...

For many homebuyers, an easement is anything but easy to understand. This legal term often surfaces during the title search, after your offer has been accepted. That’s when you may learn that someone ...

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 ...

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 ...