Facts: A property owner accesses their property they use for private recreational purposes through a road that crosses property belonging to a neighbor.
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Adjoining property owners dispute improvements to an easement.
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A buyer enters into a purchase agreement for a commercial property for their business.
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A coastal landowner applied to a local government for a coastal development permit (CDP) to build on a coastal property.
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The government granted a landowner fee simple title to a parcel of land subject to a right-of-way issued to a private railway company under the General Railroad Right-of-Way Act of 1875.
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Facts: An owner’s parcel of land was subject to a recorded easement benefitting an adjacent parcel as an appurtenant right for ingress and egress, and “public road purposes” to allow the neighbor access from their adjacent parcel to a public road. The neighbor later constructed a multi-family project on the adjacent parcel. Utilities and roadway improvements were constructed in the easement area for use by the occupants of the project.
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A property owner was granted an appurtenant easement over their neighbor’s property. The deed which granted the easement did not state the precise boundaries of the easement.
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A property owner entered into an agreement with the state to establish a conservation easement over a piece of the owner’s property.
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A commercial property owner and their neighbor owned two adjacent lots on which improvements encroached onto the other’s property. The owner and neighbor agreed to a mutual easement over the encroached areas
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Facts: A local government sought to acquire real property through eminent domain for a highway...
Read MoreDisputes regarding easement maintenance costs can now be settled in small claims courts. Civil Code §845 Amended by A.B. 1927 Effective date: January 1, 2013 Costs of repairing or maintaining easements are to be shared in...
Read MoreThis law provides for existing easements on tax-defaulted property to remain on title when the property is sold. CA Revenue & Taxation Code §3712 Amended by A.B. No. 261 Effective January 1, 2012 When tax-defaulted property...
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