Legal Question in Real Estate Law in Pennsylvania

1. If your neighbor's survey is correct and yours is not, your surveyor cannot "make things right" except by providing you with a new correct survey without charge. The surveyor cannot change the property lines of your property. The survey has to follow the previous deed or markers that were set defining the lines at an earlier time.

2. The fact that the neighboring property is still titled in the name of the deceased does not necessarily make the property not his. It depends on if his aunt had a will and she left the property to him in the will, or if she did not have a will, if he is a legal heir entitled to an interested in the property because there are no other surviving heirs ahead of him with greater rights to the estate assets.

3. If your shed and fence are on your neighbor's property, this will have to be resolved between you; he, or whoever the legal heir is who will own the property may permit you to use your shed and fence but will probably want to have an agreement that your use does not change the ownership of the land. If he won't agree, he may require you to remove the shed and fence.

To figure our you rights in your own and the neighboring property, consult a local real estate lawyer.

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