Real Property

We are buying property with a shared well having an agreement filed in 1995 granting both parties equal rights to water and a share for each in upkeep. The holders of the property where well is located are refusing service to the new owners of the second property. Agreement is filed in LA County and notarized, and signed by all parties. Extends to new owners as well, but is being refused. Arbitration or what?

My significant other (a single woman) and I (a single man) purchased a house as 'Joint Tenants with right of Survivorship'. We have lived in the house together continuously for over 6 years Do I have the right to sever the joint tenancy and what are some of the legalities involved in this?

Our family has owned property which includes a creek creating an informal boundary between two government lots. The land has not been surveyed, and the creek meanders. At one point, we built a bridge across the creek to connect the two government lot properties. When my mother died, she willed one of the lots to my younger brother, who wants to sell the land. Access to his property is on a road on our government lot, then across the creek on the bridge. My question is we want to prevent any buyer from access to the property through our property and across the bridge. Can we do that?

I have a neighbor who is encroaching my property. This is confirmed by my survey, and hers as well (I have copies of both) There are some partial encroachments, as well as a woodshed that fully sits on my property. I have asked her many times, both verbally and in writing, to remove the encroachments or settle with me via a boundary line adjustment and property swap. She refuses to answer any of my requests / offers but has also not initiated a claim of adverse possession. (This has been a known issue for three years now) I live in a very rural area of the Adirondack Park, and the local Judge would have to recuse himself were I to take this to small claims. Legal representation as I moved up the chain of the courts to find a judgement would be costly. If she or one of her tenants injures themselves while storing or moving firewood on my property, I'm afraid I would be liable.I want to shake this situation up and at least remove the shed myself. I would stack her wood for her on her own property edge. Am I within my rights to remove the shed? She is living out of the area at this time, but her caretaker, who sides with me in this issue, is more than glad to see me move the shed and wood, and will allow us access to her property to re position the shed. What is the downside of just moving the woodshed?

I am a German farmer, 37 years old, I live in Germany and farm there. I want to buy some farmland in South Dakota and in about 10 years I want to move over there and spend the rest of my life in South Dakota. Now I read on your homepage that foreigners can not buy more than 160 acres of land and that there are some more restrictions. Is there any way to buy more? I want to buy 320-640 acres in Brown County, South Dakota in the next years. Can other members of my family buy 160 acres each and than give it to me later?