I know lawyers are often the butt of jokes, but having had a wonderful dad
for a real estate attorney for almost 50 years, I know the answer: get
yourself an attorney immediately.

They will know the law, they will know the results of similar lawsuits, and
they will give you options. I strongly advise it--the law can be very
complicated and you can get burned easily.

"pixi" wrote in message
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I need an answer but don't know where to look on the internet. Has anyone
got any ideas about this?

There is about 800 feet of fence between us and a neighbor. The neighbor
recently put up a new fence. When ever a tree had grown up on the lot
line
he put the fence on our side thus putting the trees on his side of the
fence. In most cases this meant a foot or more of our property on his
side
of the fence.

I believe the law used to say if the fence remained there for 20 years,
the
land on his side was the neighbors.

This means that the neighbor took aboutg 800 square feet of land. That/'s
a
lot of land. Does anyone know where I can find out what we can do about
this.

Thanks a bunch.

Pixi