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    Default Water Supply Shut Off

    My question involves real estate located in the State of: North Carolina

    Hi ,
    My dad who is 75 years old owns 2 tracts of land . One he lives on and the other (these two properties are side by side I guess you can say he is my next door neighbor ).was the land that was not developed until he allowed me to move on the tract that ajoins his land ( although they are two seperate lots because he bought the land I love on at a later date and didnt put all of the land on the same tract .)
    As I said I have lived beside my dad for close to 8 years now I am 44 years old and last December he put the tract that I live on in my name .
    The thing is that when I moved here , my dad said I could hook a line onto his well so I could have water and not have to dig a well . I paid for all of the PVC pipe , the trench digger and an extra resivouir and hooked up my water line to his well .
    Recently my dad got mad at me simply because I didnt return his call in what he thought was a timely manner . He called on Saturday afternoon around 3 pm . I was asleep (I am disable I have nerve damage in both legs and lower back and a bakers cyst that causes my knee toi swell and at times I can barely walk ) due to the fact I had been up about all night Friday into the following Saturday at around noon . I finally fell asleep about 4 or 5 pm Saturday afternoon . When I awoke about 10:30 Saturday night I saw I had a message . It was from my dad . He wanted me to call him and let him know if I could follow him to take his truck to the shop to have a small 50 cents size hole taken out of his bumper . With it being 10:30 at night ..I decided not to wake him up ( he lives close enough that I can look out my front door and see if any lights are on... they werent on ) so after icing my knee for a while I finally went back to bed and went to sleep around 3 am .
    When I woke up the next morning , I turned on my water spicket and no water . I called my dad 3 or 4 times leaving him a message to let him know there was a problem . When he returned my call he said well since you didnt call me back the previous night (it was late , his lights were off ) I cut your water off . He said I told you that you are to do what I say or you were going to suffer ...then he says so now .........SUFFER . Then he calls back and says that If I was going to be his daughter ( which meant If I was willing to do what he tells me to ..then he would cut my water back on ...if not ....then he was not going to cut it back on . My water is still cut off and its been almost two days now .
    What I want to know is can he do this ? Is it legal ? Since I am disable and live alone , I am below the poverty level as far as my disibility check goes .....I barely make it through the month as it is and I ask no one for anything . My dad recently went through surgery for colon cancer in November of last year and it took until some time in Janurary for him to get through this ....I was with him every step of the way ..I stayed at the hospital for 2 weeks with him 10 hours a day no matter how much pain it caused me ...he had to go to a rest home for 2 weeks because he could not take care of himself and the doctor said he had to have a skilled nurse to take care of him or go to this rest home ...I am not a skilled nurse ...So I had no choice but to let them take him ...I was told that if he came home and didnt have this skilled nurse and something happened and he was injured worse or died I would be arrested for Elder Abuse . He blames me for the resthome even after it was explained to him several times that I had no choice . So that was another thing that I just found out about two days ago that he is mad at me for . He even told me I have never done anything for him .
    All in all , can my Dad cut off my water supply leaving me with no water what so ever ? Please if anyone knows please help me . I don't have alot of money but what are my options ? Can he do this to me ?

    Sincerely ,
    Andrea

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    Default Re: Water Supply Shut Off

    So, basically, you were using your father's water from the well on his land based upon his permission, for free, and he revoked his permission? Unless there's something you haven't told us, he can revoke his permission.

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