[Tangurena4]

In the state I live in, the "adverse possession" has to last 17 years.

One of our neighbors had put a fence about 3 feet on our side of the property line. It was falling down (he also had a swimming pool; both state & city laws required a fence around the property). My sister had a property survey done (by a registered land surveyor). After finding out the fence was on the wrong side of the property line, she had the fence taken down. The neighbor was arrested when he removed the survey markers (a felony in our state). At his trial, he then tried to use "adverse possession" as an excuse and that he should be awarded the property. If he had filed a court action for adverse possession before he was arrested, he would have gotten away with it.

If he had fixed the fence so that my sister's dog didn't escape, he'd still have the use of the property. And we would have been happy with it.

Robert Frost wrote "Good fences make good neighbors". That guy proved that bad fences make for a bad neighbors. Especially when other neighbors decided to take sides on the issue. Lots of people decided to call the city's Code Enforcement office to use the law to make others suffer.

[bombcar]

Heh that's so old it's in Proverbs: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+22%3A2...

Never remove the ancient boundary stone that your ancestors set up.