Question about easement

What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? California.
My neighbor who live behind me has easement rights of ingress and egress to his property across my property.This also includes utility easements. She has sold her house and says that the buyer plans to renove the Cypress trees along the drive and put in a block wall because she says that the property is hers.It was an easement granted from my property. The city says that she cant't build anything on an easement.Who's right?

[FarmerJ]

Do you have a current survey wich shows the lay out of the easement ? Have you reviewed the easement word for word to learn exactly what it says the user can and cannot do ? Do your self a favor and take non digital pictures of the entire area that the easement covers . then go gather up all your documents and if the user of the easement has not been given any right to clear land or do any maintanence task on the easement then go see a real estate atty who can review the docs and then if all goes well the atty can send them a letter advising them to not make any changes to land they dont own and telling them they will be sued should they make any changes they arent permitted to make .

[Rhubarb297]

Originally Posted by keifus

What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? California.
My neighbor who live behind me has easement rights of ingress and egress to his property across my property.This also includes utility easements. She has sold her house and says that the buyer plans to renove the Cypress trees along the drive and put in a block wall because she says that the property is hers.It was an easement granted from my property. The city says that she cant't build anything on an easement.Who's right?

If a person has an easement he/she doesn't "own" the property. An easement is a right to use a piece of property for a particular purpose, in this case the purpose appears to be use part of your property for a driveway. It's doubtful she would be able to remove trees and install a block wall.

Of course additional facts might indicate it's not an easement but rather "adverse possession". That is when someone is using your property for a long period of time and it is used in such a way that the person using the property is believed to be the owner of the property. Long story.