Real Estate Law

Prescriptive easements in New Mexico

Your family has been hiking to your mountain cottage over neighbor’s land for decades. Do the neighbors have the right to tell you to stop? Depends whether you have a prescriptive easement … An issue that comes up in real estate law fairly often is whether an easement...

Know your restrictive covenants

As a homeowner you are the master of your own universe, but that world may be controlled by the terms in your deed. Most housing developments and even undeveloped land have limitations on what can be done or kept on the premises called restrictive covenants. They are...