Couple Tore Down Neighbor’s Fence - Part 1
The tension rises as a couple takes matters into their own hands and tears down a fence. What will happen next? #NeighborWars #DramaUnfolds
Transcript
00:00The neighbors are fed up.
00:02Where do I begin?
00:03Let's begin with the fence.
00:04And their patience has hit a wall.
00:06Did you take down this fence?
00:08Yes.
00:08They have four chihuahuas harassing my dogs.
00:11The plaintiff got you wet with her hose.
00:14She climbed on our roof, painted our chimney
00:16to her liking.
00:17You can't get along?
00:18Somebody move, sell your house.
00:19I'm gonna make it a halfway house.
00:20Mr. Hernandez, I have a feeling you're a nasty guy.
00:24Judge Judy.
00:25Miss Lili, you and the Hernandez's have houses
00:29right next door to each other.
00:30Do you use yours as a vacation home?
00:32Or are you there all the time?
00:34I've lived there 28 years.
00:35Are you there full time?
00:37Yes.
00:37And you use your house as a vacation house?
00:39We purchase it as a retirement home.
00:42And until retirement, we use it as a weekend home.
00:45And each one of you claimed that the other
00:47has been harassing them, doing things to their property,
00:51destroying their property.
00:52So, Miss Lili, you want to tell me who lived in the house
00:56before Mr. and Mrs. Hernandez purchased it?
00:59An old gentleman named Joe.
01:01And his wife passed away a few years before that.
01:04Did you ever have any problem with Joe?
01:07Nope.
01:08You're lying.
01:13When you say you never had any problem with him,
01:15did he ever register any complaint to you
01:18about anything on your property?
01:20No.
01:21Never?
01:22Never.
01:23Okay, do you want to tell me what you think
01:25that Mr. and Mrs. Hernandez have done
01:28that you would claim was harassing behavior?
01:32Where do I begin?
01:33Well, let's begin with the fence.
01:35Okay.
01:36Because your main complaint is about a fence.
01:39And it's a fence that they took down.
01:41Yes.
01:42That was your fence.
01:43Yes.
01:44They say they took it down because you kept piling things
01:48on it over a tarp, so it was leaning onto their property.
01:53I assume that you have pictures of that.
01:55Yes, we do, Your Honor.
01:56So, I'm gonna take a look at the pictures
01:59that you have of Miss Leila's fence
02:02hanging over your property.
02:04Miss Leila planted cactus in order to injure
02:08when they walked out.
02:09Just a second.
02:10Would you do me a favor?
02:11I asked you to show me pictures of the fence
02:15hanging over your property.
02:17There they are.
02:23The gentleman in the picture is.
02:25Just a second.
02:25I don't see a fence hanging over your property.
02:28Thank you, Your Honor.
02:30No, just a second.
02:31I don't see that fence hanging over.
02:33See the angle of the post?
02:34And in the next picture is a realtor,
02:36and by his right hand, there's a stick holding up the fence.
02:39That's prior to our purchase.
02:40There's a stick propping up the fence.
02:43And is this your house?
02:44Yes.
02:45Yes.
02:46And this is?
02:47That's a realtor before purchase.
02:49Okay.
02:50And the other picture, Your Honor,
02:51shows a cactus leaning over the fence,
02:54leaning over the fence,
02:56leaning towards our property as well.
02:57And did you take down this fence?
02:59Yes.
03:00You can't.
03:01It was ours.
03:02You can't.
03:03No.
03:04Just a second.
03:04Did you put up this fence?
03:0628 years ago when I moved here.
03:07Just a second.
03:08You can't take down her fence.
03:09It was on our property, Your Honor.
03:11No, it wasn't on your property.
03:12It wasn't on your property.
03:13If it was leaning over your property,
03:15you could take steps to push it back on her property,
03:18but you can't remove it.
03:19She corrected several encroachments
03:21with her contractor,
03:22when we showed her the encroachment sheet.
03:25Are you talking, when you say encroachments,
03:27are you talking about the fence leaning over your property?
03:30Not leaning.
03:31The base.
03:32That's leaning, yes, but the base of the fence
03:35where it was cemented in the ground
03:36was also on our property.
03:38Just a second.
03:39I want you to show me a picture of that.
03:41Certainly.
03:42Here's encroachments.
03:44Encroachments, this is where she fixed.
03:46Just a,
03:48careful attention.
03:49I want you to show me picture.
03:52Not of anything else.
03:53That's the survey.
03:54This is the property line.
03:55This is the measurement.
03:56This is the measurement with the string.
03:59She corrected these encroachments with a contractor.
04:03You can't take down her fence.
04:06Thank you.
04:06You can't take down her fence.
04:10It's our fence, it's on our property.
04:12Your Honor, Your Honor.
04:14You're gonna say it's on her property.
04:16The survey shows, Your Honor, that it was on our property.
04:19Well, then for a period of more than,
04:23I am sure, in the jurisdiction where you live,
04:26the requisite number of years,
04:28she acquired the property by adverse possession,
04:31which means she maintained that bit of property,
04:34either by mowing it or whatever else she had to do
04:37on her property, that it became hers.
04:40And what I'm telling you is,
04:41you may say it was on our property.
04:43However, what I'm telling you is,
04:45in my judgment, you cannot take down her fence.
04:49You cannot take down her fence.