I bought the property and house 9 years ago. The property had been split contrary to a local covenant specifying 1/3 of an acre minimum. I did not know of the covenant, and was not informed of it at the time. In 2004, a dispute arose over a spec builder wanting to build on less than the minimum acreage. At that time, we were informed that the covenant is enforceable. The builders conceded. However, I found out that I had less than the required minimum of acreage. As the status quo remained with respect to my neighbor, I did not persue the mattter, He has now sold the property and this 10 feet which he illegally abandoned has become an issue between my new neighbor and me. This is not a concern of the county. They are tearing down a pool house and a garage at my end of the property, and will exacerbate the situation by claiming that the new boundary line runs in the middle of my trees. They think that they can cut down my trees. As an accomodating gesture to a new neighbor, I allowed them to come on my property to trim the offending limbs and branches, as they were hanging over their fence and the leaves were falling into their pool. They are now trying to claim that they can take them down completely. They have torn down the pool house and are about to tear down the garage. Before they bring those structures any closer to my property, do I have any recourse with respect to reclaiming the true boundary line? If I have to accept this new boundary, despite the fact that it is contrary to the local restriction, can I at the very least prevent them from adding insult to injury with respect to the trees, and perhaps a new fence that will in effect rub against the trees? I was willing to accept the status quo, but they will not accomodate. By the way, it would be nigh impossible to remove the trees without coming on to my property, as the equipment needed to do the job would have to go through their pool on their side of the fence.