Aerial Easement

[Hmgroux83]

My neighbor and Oncor had asked if I would sign an aerial easement.

I went ahead and did it without asking my husband first. My husband is upset about this and I honestly didn't really know what I was signing anyways.
I know that's bad. I was just trying to be a good neighbor.

Since then they put an electric pole on our property. Is that legal seeing how I only agreed to an aerial easement?

 

[Just Blue]

My neighbor and Oncor had asked if I would sign an aerial easement.

I went ahead and did it without asking my husband first. My husband is upset about this and I honestly didn't really know what I was signing anyways.
I know that's bad. I was just trying to be a good neighbor.

Since then they put an electric pole on our property. Is that legal seeing how I only agreed to an aerial easement?

What state?

 

[adjusterjack]

Oncor is in Texas.

Is that legal seeing how I only agreed to an aerial easement?

You just wrote that you didn't know what you were signing. It would be a good idea to take a copy to a lawyer. You did keep a copy, didn't you?

I went ahead and did it without asking my husband first. My husband is upset about this

No kidding.

Texas is a community property state. I think one spouse can obligate the other to a contract without the other's knowledge or signature.

Since then they put an electric pole on our property.

My guess is that there is no unringing of that bell.

 

[zddoodah]

No one who hasn't read the document you signed can intelligently advise you. That you have slapped the label "aerial easement" on this thing (and even if that's what it says at the top of the document) is, by itself, meaningless.

 

[quincy]

My neighbor and Oncor had asked if I would sign an aerial easement.

I went ahead and did it without asking my husband first. My husband is upset about this and I honestly didn't really know what I was signing anyways.
I know that's bad. I was just trying to be a good neighbor.

Since then they put an electric pole on our property. Is that legal seeing how I only agreed to an aerial easement?

The utility already had a ground easement through your property and the property of your neighbor, correct?

The aerial easement is needed when poles/wires are to be built on the utility’s ground easement. The aerial easement keeps property owners from building too close to the overhead wires.

You should read your property documents to learn about the utility’s current ground easement and what the aerial easement now means for you and for building on your property.