Our office routinely handles utility takings, which often involve partial takings of easements for transmission lines or pipelines. As governments attempt to improve the electrical grid to support the ...

An easement grants someone access to your property for practical purposes or for other reasons. For example, your neighbors may have access to a path on your property to get to the beach. While ...

Many properties are affected by easements. An easement provides one property owner the right to use another property owner’s land. For example, a property owner (“easement holder”) may use water and ...

Lawrence City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St., is pictured on Jan. 31, 2023. A pair of public hearings are on the agenda for Tuesday’s Lawrence City Commission agenda, both of them to consider right-of-way and ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Imagine coming home to find your locked fence taken apart and a stranger in your backyard. It happened to one Greensboro woman, and now she wants other homeowners to know when ...

GREENFIELD — The city is aiming to simplify the process by which homeowners seek approval to build structures in the city’s utility easements, and officials are bracing for push-back from homeowners.