Going to court to have a neighbor ordered to pick up fallen.
Patel, a California appellate court held that a neighbor does not have the absolute right to cut encroaching roots and branches so that they end at his or her property line. You must take into account the health of the tree before you start cutting or chopping. Local Government Cities will routinely prune and cut back trees that are on city property or if they endanger city property.
First, you will need to determine whether the tree is on city property.
Visit your local city hall and review the city map to locate where the tree shrublopping.clubted Reading Time: 7 mins. Neighbor's Trees Tree limbs and roots from a neighbor's tree can grow across your common property line.
Although this can be an annoyance to you and cause damage to your fence or driveway, you. Aug 06, If your neighbor's tree is hanging over your property, you can only trim it in a way that it does not suffer permanent damage, but you can never go onto your neighbor's property to cut it.
I have to clean up tons of their debris 8 months long each year, while I do not have any tree there.
You also do not have the legal right to pick fruit from your neighbor's tree, even if its branches are hanging over your property, per California law. Patel, when a California appellate court held that a neighbor does not have the absolute right to cut encroaching roots and branches so that they end at his or her property line. In this case, a man named Booska owned a to year-old Monterey pine. The roots of the tree grew into property owned by a man named shrublopping.clubted Reading Time: 6 mins.
Although California courts recognized an absolute right to cut off once encroaching branches, property owners can now be held liable for harming their neighbor’s tree, even if they only cut the part of the tree Author: Ellis Raskin.