Camarillo Boundary Dispute Lawyers and Camarillo Title Attorneys

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Title & Boundary Dispute Law in California

Finding out that property lines are improperly drawn and learning that you have been partially occupying your neighbor's land, or vice versa, can create some fairly serious legal issues.

Ideally, the neighbors could just ignore the situation, and go on as they had before, effectively agreeing to change the property lines to reflect their past use. This doesn't always happen, however. Furthermore, such a course of action is not free of issues, and could eventually result in ownership of the land legally changing to reflect the past use, even if one of the neighbors opposes this.

Thus, neighbors more commonly end up in some type of legal dispute over whether and to what extent the property lines should be enforced. Obviously, when the property lines are changed, one neighbor wins, and the other loses. It should come as no surprise, then, that legal fights are often the result.

Title disputes in Camarillo, California, on the other hand, involve questions of ownership over an entire parcel of land. This confusion can sometimes arise from improperly recorded deeds, resulting in inadvertent (and, occasionally, deliberate) sales of the same parcel of land to multiple people. Obviously, each buyer wants to be the one who takes title, especially if it seems unlikely that they'll be able to get their money back. This can lead to some very heated disputes.

Possible Outcomes of Boundary and Title Disputes in Camarillo, California

There are many ways to resolve boundary disputes. One way is to change the legal property lines to reflect the use that the neighbors had been making of the land before the discrepancy was discovered. This is typically considered a sort of "neutral" result - nobody's situation changes. If both neighbors knew about the real boundaries for a very long time, and did nothing about it, a court may view this as them having acquiesced to the status quo, and decide that it would be unfair to force the neighbors to change their use of the land after such a long period of time. This might also be done if enforcing the property lines would place a very large burden on one neighbor, and re-drawing them to reflect their actual use would put a comparatively small burden on the other neighbor

A court might do the opposite, and decide to enforce the property lines as they're drawn. This will generally benefit one neighbor and hurt the other. A court will probably do this if one neighbor knew that his land was encroaching onto another person's property, and actively tried to hide that fact from his neighbor. Obviously, such bad behavior shouldn't be rewarded. Conversely, if the neighbor whose land was being encroached upon knew about the discrepancy, and did nothing about it, the court will probably change the property lines to reflect this prior use, to prevent that neighbor from being rewarded for "sitting on his rights."

In the case of disputes over title, courts have to figure out who owns a particular piece of real property. Courts will consider many factors, and there are some perplexing and (in some cases) antiquated legal issues that guide Camarillo, California courts on these matters.

Without going into too much detail, the person who recorded their deed first will be the one who takes ownership, provided he or she did not know (or had no reason to know) of the existence of the other deed.

What Can A Camarillo, California Attorney Do?

As you might have gathered, it's not uncommon for the legal issues governing boundary and title disputes to get very complicated. Additionally, any dispute that can affect one's use or ownership of land has very high stakes (land isn't normally cheap, after all). Therefore, it shouldn't come as a surprise that hiring a competent Camarillo, California real estate lawyer to help in situations like this is always a good idea.

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Life in Camarillo

Situated in sunny Ventura County, Camarillo, California is a city of about 65,000 (based a 2006 estimate). Camarillo, California is named for two brothers of Spanish descent who lived in the area before the arrival of Anglo settlers, from the Eastern U.S. They, and other "Californios," helped preserve some of the region's Spanish heritage, in the face of the mostly English influence that settlers from other parts of the U.S. brought with them.

Humans have lived in the area for over 10,000 years, and Camarillo, California is home to some important archeological sites relating to these ancient inhabitants. Camarillo, California is generally considered a "bedroom community" - a largely residential urban area from which most of the residents commute to work.

Camarillo, California is considered very livable, where the weather is usually sunny, and the temperatures mild. Furthermore, Camarillo, California's crime rates are far lower than the national average, for all types of crime.

Camarillo, California is also home to California State University, Channel Islands. The region is home to several major industrial and biotechnology firms.

It should come as no surprise, then, that the consumers of Camarillo's legal services tend to be fairly sophisticated. This draws in lawyers who are good at handling complex cases. This means that a Camarillo, California lawyer can probably handle just about any legal issue an individual is likely to encounter.

Whatever your legal issue, it's a near certainty that there's a Camarillo, California lawyer who can help you solve it.

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