My fence has been up for more than seven years so according to state law it is the property line, right?
Wrong. We’ve heard this one so many times we’d love to know where it started. The idea of a fence becoming the property line has its origins in the legal principle of Adverse Possession. Adverse Possession is the process by which a person acquires title to land by occupying it in defiance of another. However, occupying the land is just one of five conditions that must be met in order to claim land by adverse possession. Since we don’t claim to be lawyers we won’t offer a legal treatise on the subject here. However we can confidently state that there is no such law in Texas.
