Practice Area
Easement Attorney in Tennessee
An easement is the right to use a piece of someone else's land — for access, for utilities, for a shared driveway — and most easement fights are about its scope: how far it reaches, who maintains it, and whether long use has created one nobody wrote down. I handle both sides of that, drafting easements into deals and disputing them when they no longer fit the property.
This page covers a focused service. For the broader editorial practice area, see Real Estate Disputes in Tennessee.
Drafting them, and fighting over them
The work splits into two tracks. On the deal side, I grant and reserve easements at a sale, a subdivision, or a development, so the access and utility rights are clear before anyone builds. On the dispute side, the questions are scope, location, maintenance, and overuse — plus whether long-running open and notorious use has matured into a prescriptive easement under Tennessee law. Express easements (often recorded decades ago), implied and necessity easements, prescriptive easements, and statutory utility easements each get analyzed differently.
Where the survey and the plat usually decide it
Most easement disputes come down to documentary evidence — the recorded plat, the deed history, and a current boundary survey — measured against how the land has actually been used. Tennessee recognizes prescriptive easements from long-running open, notorious, continuous, and adverse use, so that timeline of use carries real weight. A sale, a refinance, or a development plan tends to surface the problem; a neighbor or a utility pushing on scope or maintenance brings it to a head. The earlier I see it, the more room there is to settle before facts on the ground harden into rights.
Service area
Statewide advice; trial representation in Sumner, Wilson, Robertson, Trousdale, Williamson, and Davidson Counties.
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