State = Missouri
My Live in girlfriend (GF) bought a rental property 2 years ago ( in her name only). When she bought it the seller said that her(GF) driveway was shared with the next door neighbor. The Neighbor has her own driveway and garage on the other side of her house. The neighbor is and has been very adamant about not parking on her property. Some times the renters guest would park a tire over the line on her property. So after some checking we discover that there is not any legal easement/rightaway on our property for the neighbor to use. We erect a fence down the property line and inform neighbor she cannot use our driveway to access her backyard anymore and for her to use her drivrway and garage for parking.
She has sued My GF, Me ( I dont own the property) , and our renter (who is my wifes daughter). She is not claiming adverse possession, just that the driveway had been shared forever and she want it to continue. Her Attorney sent us Interrogatories.
Her Plea is for the judge to declare our driveway as shared (A legal easement ?) and for us GF, me and Renter to unfetter her use of our driveway plus punitive damages.
We were served papers and have retained an attorney. My Attorney has Applied for a dismisal due to no legal merit. Do We have to reply to her attorneys Interrogatories? He sent a questionair. Would it be better to let my attorney answer them (expensive option). They are pretty simple questions. Why was the fence installed? Was I paid to install the fence? Was the fence installed to deny neighbor access to her backyard/carport (carport is a coverted screened in porch).
Just trying to save a few bucks here.
Thanks in advance Woody
My Live in girlfriend (GF) bought a rental property 2 years ago ( in her name only). When she bought it the seller said that her(GF) driveway was shared with the next door neighbor. The Neighbor has her own driveway and garage on the other side of her house. The neighbor is and has been very adamant about not parking on her property. Some times the renters guest would park a tire over the line on her property. So after some checking we discover that there is not any legal easement/rightaway on our property for the neighbor to use. We erect a fence down the property line and inform neighbor she cannot use our driveway to access her backyard anymore and for her to use her drivrway and garage for parking.
She has sued My GF, Me ( I dont own the property) , and our renter (who is my wifes daughter). She is not claiming adverse possession, just that the driveway had been shared forever and she want it to continue. Her Attorney sent us Interrogatories.
Her Plea is for the judge to declare our driveway as shared (A legal easement ?) and for us GF, me and Renter to unfetter her use of our driveway plus punitive damages.
We were served papers and have retained an attorney. My Attorney has Applied for a dismisal due to no legal merit. Do We have to reply to her attorneys Interrogatories? He sent a questionair. Would it be better to let my attorney answer them (expensive option). They are pretty simple questions. Why was the fence installed? Was I paid to install the fence? Was the fence installed to deny neighbor access to her backyard/carport (carport is a coverted screened in porch).
Just trying to save a few bucks here.
Thanks in advance Woody
