BOUNDARY

[Lotus]

hi Nigel,my girlfriend[English] who lives in a small village has a boundary dispute,the house was built 70 years ago one of three all belonging to the same Cypriot family,now her neighbour [Cypriot] who was given the house by his father 2 years ago and only comes up once every 2 weeks is claiming part of her garden is on his land,the lawyer who she dealt with when she brought the house about ten years ago should surely have checked this?,is there a time limit here where after a certain time he cant do anything?,or have you any suggestions? Thanks

[Nigel-Howarth]

Hi Lotus

This is quite a common problem in old villages. Before the introduction of theodolites boundaries were marked out using chains (literally) that were not as accurate.

Your girlfriend could have the boundaries checked by one of the licensed surveyors at http://www.moi.gov.cy/moi/dls/dls.nsf/A ... 1_1_16.pdf

I expect she will find that one of her other neighbours is encroaching on her land.

There isn't any solution to the problem other than giving up part of the land or paying compensation.

A lawyer would not normally have the boundaries checked.

Regards,

[trevnhil]

We had a boundary dispute which lasted a few years. It was eventually settled by us paying for the Land Registry team to come around and measure and mark the boundaries with their GPS equipment.

The 'measurements' were eventually transferred to the office computers, and ourselves and our neighbour received a letter from the manager showing the disputed strip of land was ours.

The neighbour was not happy about it but accepted the decision. He could have gone to court over it, but was advised that the GPS measurements would be found to be correct.

The decision had little effect because in our neighbours case it was a plot of land with nothing on it.

But it did take a year or more for all this to happen.

Trev..