Kentucky - I know it is a right to farm state - BUT ........

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Don't know all the particulars but if you or your mom have a share I'd put my foot down and say no to him fencing off your yard or your drive . I'm a cattlemen and I admire his hustle to fence more land but I think he's pushing his rights .
Thank you - believe me when I tell you he's an entitled a-hole and that's the nicest thing I could say …. There are so so so many more particulars that would show you just what a deplorable person he is - disrespectful not only to my family now - but 100% disrespectful to my father who was the head of our family and would have put up with ZERO of his attitude and the things he's done (that go over above and beyond just "cattle")…

Unfortunately his mother allows it so there's that …..

Karma can't arrive fast enough believe me …
 
I'd buy the others out and kick the guy off. But then again who puts a house on land they don't own?
We DO own the land our home is on ….
 
So to clarify-is he putting cattle on land you own and does not have permission to do so? Is he denying access to any of the same land?
 
So to clarify-is he putting cattle on land you own and does not have permission to do so? Is he denying access to any of the same land?
That's exactly what he did when we told him no - but he did it anyway - and threatened if we didn't let him - he'd put them in front of our house which is technically now "his moms" tract (our tracts are obviously next to each other) since the entire farm was owned by the brothers / spouses undivided interest before they divided it to simply have each brother with their own parcel … it was open land and then when we divided the parcels the three brothers placed homes on their parcels ….

Anyway - I'm not anti-cattle by any means - but it's not a cattle ranch is the whole point.
 
it'd be illegal to restrict your access to your property. do you have an easement to your tract?
 
We DO own the land our home is on ….
This story gets more confusing everytime I check in on it. Do you own the land your house is on or does your mother own the land? How much land is deeded to YOU? A 100 acres can be divided up in allot of ways. Also does anyone else live on the 100 acres? I guess what I'm getting at is I don't see any legal way you can keep him from doing whatever he wants on land that you don't legally own. If he has cows on land you own or have control over and you don't want them there he needs to remove them. You say if he moves the cows from your land he'll put them in front of your house so I'm guessing you don't own any road frontage?

All this mess is why I won't sell any land to family members that ask. You never know how long they'll be there or what will happen when the kids get it. The 60 acres we bought is a perfect square so would have been divided into 3 blocks all with road frontage. Allot of times this isn't the case and people start fighting. Always turns into a mess.
 
This is a good place to discuss and complain. But a real legal solution requires the whole situation disclosed from a legal standpoint, not the emotions, past history, and the wishes.

What is needed in this situation is a lawyer that can ask all the pertinent questions, get the answers, explain the legal standing, and the options available.

And real estate left undivided to multiple heirs (joint owners) can end up being a burden on everyone. The longer it goes on, the more difficult it becomes for future generations.
 
@RexandRoxKY your story is confusing at best. This is not a cattle issue - it's a legal issue. If you have a leg to stand on, you need to visit an attorney.
You say YOU own the land the house is built on. YOU or you MOM?? Do you OWN the land between your house and the main road? ("YOUR" front lawn?). If you do not OWN the land as your front lawn, you have NO RIGHTS. Just because you "liked" the way it WAS, does not mean you have any rights to keep it that way.
 
Definitely a legal issue you should be talking to an attorney about your state laws.

A lot of good points have been made.

You have no control over what they do on their land. If they want want it to be a cattle ranch than that is what it will be.

You could be responsible for fencing your land off to keep his cattle out. That is a state specific legal issue.

It might be worth while to check on easements and if any one can be land locked before this goes too far.

I do sympathize with your situation as we have family land that is undivided and divided. It's very hard to watch things change. The good thing is actually that yalls land is divided so you can control your part. If it was all still undivided, there would be nothing you could legally do to stop him from running a much on the entire property.
 
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I think the only way anyone would begin to understand any of this is with a map. Your description is too confusing.
100 ac total. It got divided by 3 (33ac ea). Cousin in running cows on 2 of the 3 parts with permission. OP is the 3rd part. The 3rd piece is unclear as it sounds like cousin is trying to run cows on it but it also sounds like the OP does not have a fence to prevent that or designate their land. It sound like the OP doesn't want cows on any of it and wants to go back to operating like when it was undivided and they all used the property for more entertainment. 😄
 
OP should just be thankful it's not an open range county. They'd have cows all 'round AND have to pay for a fence to keep em off his property.
 
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