Rural landowners face losing access to their longtime driveway when a new neighbor purchases the land adjacent on either side and begins preventing access and threatening legal action: 'They have lived in their house for over 10 years'

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    A bit of backstory: My boyfriend and his parents have lived in their house for over 10 years, and it has a long driveway. Recently a woman bought the farmland next to our driveway.
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    This woman doesn't live up here, she lives over 30 minutes away aljuj owns th
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    Her property is on both sides of our driveway, but she doesn't own the driveway itself. Our driveway is a road, it has a street name, and at least 5-10 of us live up this road/driveway. This woman doesn't live up here, she lives over 30 minutes away and just owns the field.
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    Since she bought the land, she has forced the county to move our trash disposal area to the other side of the road so that it's no longer on her land. She stole our mailboxes last week, to which she only brought them back after we got the police involved, and she put them up about 0.25 miles down the road from where they've always been. She says that's where they have to stay now because they used to be on her property.
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    My partner and I are required to park more than half a mile from our home due to the fact that our car cannot make it up the driveway. We have an agreement with a local pastor to let us park at his church and walk to our house. This is the only way to access our house, so we have been continuing to walk on our road, just like we always have. Any advice moving on?
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    Ange Charmes She's bluffing hard, document everything and push back through the county or a lawyer, she doesn't get to invent rules on a road she doesn't own
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    SunDummylsD... Moving mailboxes? Get your postmaster involved; they do not f around when it comes to postal laws.
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    mhillard00 You need a real estate lawyer NOW Everheart1955 This should be fun. What she doesn't understand that you have is an easement which allows access and usage of a certain amount of her property usually that's defined (at least in the US) as 12ft from the center of the easement to either side. I'd love to watch this play out in court because she's about to get her **** handed to her.
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