Easements on Lands in Texas
Easements are sometimes a necessary part of real estate ownership. An easement is often viewed by Texas property owners as hindrances, situations that make things more complicated. While mostly true, easements play an important role in the orderly use of land that is owned by someone else, but provides necessary functions.
Land & Easement Consulting
Our land consulting service can help guide you through your easement situation. Easements can vary a lot with some being agreed, while others are not agreed easements. Four easement types are not agreed to: easement by necessity, easement by implication, easement by prescription and easement by condemnation.
Other kinds of property easements that show up around the country and in Texas include conservation easements, solar easements, utility easements for electric-power, telephone lines and fuel pipelines, easements providing access to beaches or surface waters and historic-preservation easements.
Navigating Easements in Texas
It’s a landowner’s obligation to understand the nature of any property easement that exists in relation to land being purchased. Easements are a complicated and thorny area of the law. It’s important for Texas property owners to understand what they can and cannot control when it comes to easement establishment.
Easements are often negotiated by the parties involved, but sometimes these situations end up be decided by a third party, in court. The facts of a specific case generally drive a court’s decision. If you find yourself with an ambiguous or contentious property easement, let our land consulting and management service help you.