If there are 3 owners of a piece of property but only 1 has paid the full tax bill for over 10 years, do the other 2 owners still have rights to the property?
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If there are 3 owners of a piece of property but only 1 has paid the full tax bill for over 10 years, do the other 2 owners still have rights to the property?
The paying owner’s daughter currently lives on the property (it’s a total of 40 acres) and now a non-paying owner’s grandson wants to move on the property. Is there anyway to stop him?
Asked on August 22, 2012 under Real Estate Law, Louisiana
Answers:
M.T.G., Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
From what you have written here you all own the property equally and you all have the obligation to pay for the taxes, maintenance and upkeep. The fact that the one has paid them all these years does not mean the others have "given up" their ownership rights. Now, what the one paying owner needs to do is to sue the others for the money owed which may work as a set off against purchasing the property directly. Speak with a lawyer also about a partition action. Good luck.
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