If I have a row of hedges that separates 2 properties, whose responsibility is it to maintain and trim them?
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If I have a row of hedges that separates 2 properties, whose responsibility is it to maintain and trim them?
Asked on May 5, 2012 under Real Estate Law, Connecticut
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SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
Whose hedges are they, which generally comes down to whose property are they on? All property is owned by someone, after all--the dividing line between two properties can effectively be viewed as infinitely thin, and everything is either on one side, the other side, or sometimes straddles both. If the hedges are on your side of the property line, they are your resonsibility; if on your neighbor's, his or her responsibility. If they straddle both properties, then the determination is more complex and may require litigation and a court judgment (assuming you can't work things out amicably), which would look into facts such as who planted them, where do more of them fall or which side did they orginate on, etc.
The answer, therefore, if that even if they divide the two properties, you need to determine who is their owner.
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