Comments on: Lawyers cringe when neighbors fight

By: Harry Styron

Harry Styron — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:48:31 +0000

Allen,
You need to contact a lawyer in your community. I do not give legal advice on this blog.

By: Allen

Allen — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 14:05:33 +0000

What recourse do I have?

By: Allen

Allen — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:31:18 +0000

My bobcat contractor was to do clean my property and in exchange get the trees that was to be removed. He went to court house, got a map, then somehow got the property markers mixed up and took the trees from neighbor’s land.
Now my neigbors are talking about suing me for for tens of thousands of dollars for the standing timber.

By: Slander of title « Title Search

Slander of title « Title Search — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:37:42 +0000

[...] In another case, two property owners sued each other over some trees which were cut down, and one of the parties filed a mechanics lien for the work. [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:53:44 +0000

I was fortunate to prosecute in south FL during the beginning of the real estate bust. I saw far too many disputes, where the neighbors went back and forth each becoming a defendant, each becoming a victim and thus screaming in my ear why the other neighbor should have the book thrown at him or her but that his case be dropped. I honestly wished I had the power and I am sure the judge would have liked to have the same power to order the two to move away from each other.
For many of these disputes, which did often originate on some type of boundary/fence/nuisance claim, there would never be a happy answer for either party and it ended up ruining lives because neither party nor the justice system could cope with such bickering.
I do think that there are many lawyers who feed into this, not anyone with whom I do business, by not looking deeper into the dispute and not advising the client to stop and just let the dispute go.
As a prosecutor, my solution to this problem was to sit down with the victim/defendant and the opposite victim/defendant and their attorneys and as long as nobody really overstepped the line (no felony batteries, etc.) then I would dismiss each case and threaten that if I ever saw another in my court room that I would press for the max in jail. Sometimes, miraculously it worked they backed off each other. Sometimes, they called my bluff and I would ask for the max and they usually got probation from the judge.