Boundary Disputes

What We'll Cover

• Locating plats and surveys
• Legal descriptions
• Determining boundaries
• Lawsuits to quiet title

Terms

• Subdivision
• Partition
• Tax Lot
• Legal Lot of Record
• Monument

Resolving Disputes

• Boundary Line Agreement
• Adverse Possession
• Easement
• Sale of land
• Ejectment
• Self-Help

Title Insurance

Sources of Boundary Disputes

• Errors on deed or recorded document
• Discrepancies between deed and conditions on the ground

Water Ways as Boundaries

• Ownership of navigatible waterways
• Accretion
• Avulsion

Boundary Fences

• Shared expenses
• Shared repair obligations
• Removal