Articles Posted in Random Miscellaneous

Many citizens of Louisiana often face difficult circumstances with their neighbors. Not just the noise or random annoyances but, instead, sheds, plants, trees or other property going across the lot and into their own property.

While a shed that is 2″ too wide is often ignored by the average person, there are very real consequences of allowing this to go on.

Common law dictates that an infringing structure or item, left unchecked, can create new property rights that take away from the individual who has calmly allowed what may be a harmless mistake. Encroachment of a shed or addition to a house can expand the property of the owner of said structure to the detriment of an unassuming neighbor.

A nice quick read for those in New Orleans and abroad, the Toronto Star recently did a profile describing the recovery movement post-Katrina and what it means four years later. While common in its timeline of the days before and after Katrina, it does spotlight a lingering international interest in the disaster and shows, again, just how much help is still needed even after all that time.

John Goddard recounts

Some visitors seek out the city’s cemetery tombs. Some ride to nearby plantations and delta swamps. For many, however, the first choice is to survey Katrina’s devastation – not to gawk at other people’s misfortune but to understand what the city endured and appreciate its protracted recovery.

A happy Labor Day for everyone in the Gulf Coast and beyond!