Posted by: Archipelago Law in Land Use, Maine Roads on November 20, 2025
Forming a Statutory Road Association It’s mid-winter in Maine and a nor’easter just dumped a foot of snow overnight. The plow never came. The road is a rutted mess of ice and frozen slush, and half the neighbors insist they already “paid their share” last fall. By spring, the runoff has carved trenches deep enough […]
Read MorePosted by: Archipelago Law in Land Use, Maine Roads, Property Law on December 2, 2022
Public and private rights to discontinued roads is a confusing and highly litigated area of land use law in Maine. Ownership and rights in land encumbered by a discontinued road often hinge on a case-by-case analysis of the history of the right-of-way and the method of discontinuance. When a homeowner owns land abutting a discontinued […]
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