My question involves real estate located in the State of: Texas
My neighbor is trying to claim adverse possesion on 3 feet of property that belong to me. I grew up in this house and except for 12 years I have lived in that house for 35 years. My neighbor has only lived in her house 24 years. At the time after she moved in she and my mother who has been deceased for almost 12 years replaced the fence separating our properites. I am not sure when this happened. Some years later the fence needed to be replaced again. She again asked my mother to help on the cost of the fence. My mother was unable to do so as she was on a fixed income and she was also in the last months of her life. Apparently there was an agreement (according to the neighbor) between her and my mother--when the fence got put up the people installing the fence somehow moved it 3 feet back on our property. There is nothing in writing in my mother's will about this. So isn't that agreement considered null and void anyway since there is nothing in writing? This problem started about the 3 feet in 2006 and now it's 2008. We do not have the money to obtain an attorney because of the amount of their reatiner fees. She is sueing us. She also has a temporary restraining order on us. She had called the cops on us, etc. We have done everything we have been asked to do since the restraining order came up. All we want her to do is to move her fence back where it belongs. She has not paid the taxes on the portion of the property in question and another thing I would like to know is how far we can go back and ask for back taxes on the 3 foot strip she thinks she is paying for. Also neither property has been replatted. This woman has made our life a living hell. She is old and can't hardly walk and is nothing but an old biddy who has nothing better to do with her time than to make our life a living hell.

