My father has a fence at the end of his garden. There's a new neighbour who lives on the other side of it who wants to remove trees and hedges.

In the latest published decision addressing easements in California, the court of appeal ruled on the application of the equitable defense of laches to a claim of a prescriptive easement.

Prescriptive easements are almost always a problem and there must be a jillion of them in our mostly rural county. They are usually not recorded accurately on property titles, if recorded at all.

Now the beach starts right at the house." Now Pinellas County leaders are pressing property owners to sign construction easements for the Sand Key beach nourishment project. The county said ...