I want to know what is an encroachment is?
An encroachment is any infringement by one person or entity on the rights of a person or an entity on the rights of another person or entity. In the context of real property, encroachment refers to the interference with or intrusion onto the property of another. Encroachment may occur when something from an adjacent property crosses, in whole or in part, the boundary line between properties. The encroachment may be a fence, for example, that is constructed by a property owner beyond his or her own property line, or a house, garage, shed, or other building which is not constrained within the legal boundary lines of the property. In most instances, the only way to accurately establish where legal property lines are located, and thus to determine whether or not the location of something constitutes an encroachment, is to consult existing survey records that lay out the boundaries of properties. However, many properties do not have survey records in existence, and thus a property´s boundar
