Many properties are affected by easements. An easement provides one property owner the right to use another property owner’s land. For example, a property owner (“easement holder”) may use water and ...

An easement grants someone access to your property for practical purposes or for other reasons. For example, your neighbors may have access to a path on your property to get to the beach. While ...

New Jersey case law bars an increase in the burden imposed by a dominant estate beyond the limits that a servient estate should bear. Can access by easement to property benefitting a one-acre parcel ...

A recent case in the Idaho Supreme Court serves as a good reminder that Idaho takes a somewhat unique approach to allocating responsibility for easement maintenance. In Fletcher v. Lone Mountain Road ...

An appurtenant easement involves two neighboring properties. The dominant estate or dominant tenement gets to access another’s property. The property being accessed is the servient estate or servient ...

Can access by easement to property benefitting a one-acre parcel with, say, 20 vehicles parked on it also serve to benefit a distinct adjoining 10-acre parcel subsequently acquired by the same owner ...