June 2018 USofAZ Field Notes

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Article: Common Source of Land Surveying Problems

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June 30, 2018

10:00am

Rumsey Park

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Common sources of land surveying problems

By Sam A. Moak The Legal Corner

The most common source of boundary problems in rural lands is simply the passage of time. Large tracts of land often stay in the same families for decades. During that time, there is usually no reason to have the property surveyed. Also during those long stretches, friendly relations develop between neighbors, accommodations are made and things are fine between neighbors for many years.

Unfortunately, good neighbors eventually die and their heirs, who do not live in the area, wind up owning the land or selling it to someone else who is not from the area. At that point, long-standing but undocumented understandings are lost or suddenly no longer recognized. Neither the seller nor the buyer is familiar with the land or its history, and the survey makers placed or referenced over 50 years earlier are no longer where they were. Old stakes and witness trees are long gone. River banks and stream beds have drifted to new locations. There may be precious little physical evidence of the correct property boundaries.