Neighbor Legal Battles

When we agreed to split the cost of a new shared fence, I thought the only fight would be over cedar versus vinyl. Then the surveyor’s flags showed our fence line was never where both of us thought it was.

The roots from my neighbor's massive oak had been destroying my driveway for three years. I had the photos, the repair estimates, and a lawyer who said we couldn't lose. We were right about everything except one small detail: whose tree it actually was.

I'd been feeding birds in my backyard for thirty years. Then my new neighbor decided my bird feeder was a public nuisance that was destroying his life—and his lawyer agreed. What happened in court made the local paper's front page for all the wrong reasons.