In court, you have to testify that your decision was made on 'best available evidence'. Your 'Field book entries' prove that your were there at least...

The surveyor can only certify to the location of the physical evidence.The owner's affidavit specifies the designation of 'property line'.City attorne...

You have one lawyers opinion, deral; how does that limit any other lawyer who might challenge your use of deed forms?Municipalities can get away with ...

The most recent deed may have been necessary to clarify the ownership for legal reasons that have nothing to do with surveying and it illustrates why ...

RichardAll types of property disputes along with mediation & arbitration procedures.Richard Schaut

You have to be careful with many of these aliquot part descriptions.Many times the surveyor used the right monument as specified by the owners but the...

Nothing after Clark's 2nd is worth the money.For up-to-date reference, you can't beat Backman & Thomas's "A Practical Guide to Disputes Between Ad...

If there is an applicable statute of limitations and the time limit for challenging the occupation has passed, I would explain that as a basis for acc...

Variance request; it can be enforced by a court order by basing the claim on ss 322 as the condition has been in place longer than 5 yrs and there has...

Occupation Surveying Wrong BreysacherCheck CA law.Surveyors are not unpaid, unauthorized enforcement officials for lax municipalities, and the law app...

Occupation Surveying Sorry InceCalifornia law gives the adjoiner, (not some future surveyor or title insurer), 5 yrs to object to any trespass and, af...

Your state law, either ss 321 or 322, will define the landowners rights.Standard survey methods dictate recovery of all necessary physical evidence, e...

The disturbed monument isn't a monumentFrom Wigmore;’s compendium on “Evidence”, 2nd. Edition, Vol. 5 Section 2476:“It is not necessary, and it is not...

The monument IS NOT NOT ALWAYS the cornerCheck CA Stats 321-322. They deal with established physical boundaries that have been in place and honored b...

The monument is the corner when the affected owners rely on it to mark the limits of their occupation and control of a parcel of land and an error in ...

You have identified a problem but you offer no solution and the surveyor is the only one who can provide a solution.Does your state have statutes of l...

Read and re-read the section of the manuals, (both 1973 & 2009), so that you can understand the process of correcting the record description so th...

Here in WI, section and sectional subdivision lines and corner locations were preserved by fences known as 'line fences', and they consisted of 4' hig...