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175<p>Easements for ingress and egress usually only specify a width and location of the easement, without addressing the nature of the surface or improvements to the surface. <a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/the-floating-easement-what-it-is-and-how-it-is-established/" target="_blank">Some don’t even specify the location of the easement (called a floating easement</a>). A recent decision out of El Dorado County addressed whether the holder of a nonexclusive easement for ingress and egress could pave the road easement across the subservient parcel.  The answer?  It depends.  The court also addressed whether a prior lawsuit between the parties over the same easement  (neighbors but not friends) ‘split’ the cause of action, resulted in barring this current action. <a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2026/01/Sacramento-paved-easement-lawyer-mtns-scaled.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2026/01/Sacramento-paved-easement-lawyer-mtns-scaled.jpg" alt="Sacramento-paved-easement-lawyer-mtns-scaled" width="2560" height="1706" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2026" srcset="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2026/01/Sacramento-paved-easement-lawyer-mtns-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2026/01/Sacramento-paved-easement-lawyer-mtns-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2026/01/Sacramento-paved-easement-lawyer-mtns-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2026/01/Sacramento-paved-easement-lawyer-mtns-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2026/01/Sacramento-paved-easement-lawyer-mtns-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2026/01/Sacramento-paved-easement-lawyer-mtns-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2026/01/Sacramento-paved-easement-lawyer-mtns-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2026/01/Sacramento-paved-easement-lawyer-mtns-180x120.jpg 180w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100v
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176<p>In<a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10076205114111677471&amp;q=+Bernstein+v+Sebring&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4,5" target="_blank"> Bernstein v Sebring</a>, the easement for ingress and egress included portions of a paved road and a 244 foot gravel/dirt road splitting off the paved road used as a driveway for the defendant-easement holder’s property. In 2018 (while the first easement lawsuit was pending) the easement holder told the plaintiff that he was going to immediately pave the gravel/dirt roadway, including the portion’s on plaintiff’s subservient property.  This lawsuit followed.  With the two lawsuits, the defendant claimed plaintiff violated the rule against splitting causes of action; more on that at the end of this post.</p>
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237								<p>A title insurance policy does not insure against future events.  Instead, <a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/title-insurance-only-insures/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">title insurance indemnifies the insured against loss</a> resulting from differences between the actual title and the record title as of the date title is insured.  Liability is often clear due to missed documents in the chain of title. Once liability is established<a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/california-title-insurance-covers-marketability-title-not-marketability-property-can-tell-difference/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"> the problem is to decide how to calculate what the damage is</a>.  In a recent decision the title insurer argued that the diminution in value of the property due to an undisclosed easement was based on the value of the actual use of the property.  They were wrong- the court held it liable for diminution based on the highest and best use of the property.</p>
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239<p>Commonwealth issued the Taits an American Land Title Association (ALTA) Homeowner&#8217;s Policy of Title Insurance for the property. The policy insured the Taits against “actual loss” arising from certain defined covered risks, which include someone else having an easement on the property.</p>
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300.  The most common result is a judicial sale of the property, made by a referee appointed by and accountable to the court. The referee is typically a licensed real estate broker.  In a recent decision out of Nevada County, after the sale one of the co-owners sued the broker.  The Court sided with the broker, finding that he was entitled to qualified judicial immunity. <a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2024/04/Quasi-Judicial-Immunity-attorney.jpg"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2024/04/Quasi-Judicial-Immunity-attorney.jpg" alt="Quasi-Judicial-Immunity-attorney" width="1024" height="683" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2005" srcset="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2024/04/Quasi-Judicial-Immunity-attorney.jpg 1024w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2024/04/Quasi-Judicial-Immunity-attorney-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2024/04/Quasi-Judicial-Immunity-attorney-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2024/04/Quasi-Judicial-Immunity-attorney-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2024/04/Quasi-Judicial-Immunity-attorney-180x120.jpg 180w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></p>
301<p>In <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14532778997447143194&amp;q=Holt+v.+Brock,+(85+Cal.+App.+5th+611+(2022),+&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2006" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Holt v. Brock, (85 Cal. App. 5th 611 (2022), reh&#8217;g denied (Dec. 13, 2022)</a>, review denied (Mar. 15, 2023)) a brother and sister could not agree on what to do with an inherited house, so one filed for partition.  Brock was appointed and the court ordered the parties to sign a listing agreement, the property to be sold “as is” with a listing price of at least $882,500, the actual listing price to be determined by the broker’s assessment of current market value.</p>
302<p>The plaintiff offered to buy the property for $1 million if the broker reduced his commission to 3%.  There is some dispute as to what happened, but after agreeing the broker decided he would not change the listing agreement.  The house sold to the highest bidder for less than $1 million, and the plaintiff sued the broker. <a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2024/04/Judicial-Immunity-attorney.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2024/04/Judicial-Immunity-attorney.jpg" alt="Judicial-Immunity-attorney" width="1024" height="683" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2006" srcset="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2024/04/Judicial-Immunity-attorney.jpg 1024w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2024/04/Judicial-Immunity-attorney-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2024/04/Judicial-Immunity-attorney-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2024/04/Judicial-Immunity-attorney-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2024/04/Judicial-Immunity-attorney-180x120.jpg 180w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a></p>
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364<p><a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2023/11/Due-on-Sale-attorney.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2023/11/Due-on-Sale-attorney.jpg" alt="Due-on-Sale-attorney" width="639" height="437" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1996" srcset="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2023/11/Due-on-Sale-attorney.jpg 639w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2023/11/Due-on-Sale-attorney-300x205.jpg 300w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2023/11/Due-on-Sale-attorney-175x120.jpg 175w" sizes="(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px" /></a>All-inclusive deeds of trust are used when the interest rate on the existing loan is much lower than the current prevailing rate, the rate of the wraparound can be lower than the [prevailing rate, and the seller still earns a spread between the rate he is paying and the rate that the buyer is paying to the seller.</p>
365<p>The exception is part of the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/12/1701j-3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Garn–St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982</a>, that deregulated savings and loan associations and allowed banks to provide adjustable-rate mortgage loans. More importantly for us, it prohibits lenders from exercising the due on sale clause  in transfers between parents and children.  There are some other exemptions set out at the end of this Blog.</p>
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427<p>In <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10378045813309694297&amp;q=Tariwala+v+Mack&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4,5" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Tariwala v Mack,</a>  Defendant Mack owned two adjacent properties at <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/dir/2957+Los+Robles+Road,+Thousand+Oaks,+CA/2949+Los+Robles+Rd,+Thousand+Oaks,+CA+91362/@34.169169,-118.8404763,399m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x80e825223490dca9:0x678c41cbf62dca95!2m2!1d-118.8391865!2d34.1689634!1m5!1m1!1s0x80e8252235e38c15:0xd2b081eb2bdc7286!2m2!1d-118.8389475!2d34.1692337!3e0" rel="noopener" target="_blank">2957 &amp; 2949 Los Robles Road in Thousand Oaks</a>.  Lot 2957 (the Mack property) was in the front along the road, the other lot was in the back. A recorded easement over the Mack property provides the only access to 2949  (what later became the Plaintiff’s property) </p>
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489								<p>Assessor’s Parcel Numbers are usually included in the legal description of a deed.  But that does not always work; there are times when the APNs do not exactly describe the individual parcel.  The assessor’s office does not necessarily follow the subdivision map in assigned APNs. Parties do not necessarily have the Assessors map to refer to and this leads to confusion in what is being conveyed (or <a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/does-a-california-title-companys-preliminary-report-govern-or-is-it-only-the-final-policy-that-matters/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">insured by the title insurer</a>!). </p>
490<p> This may be why use of an APN in a summons <a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/publishing-summons-in-quiet-title-actions-what-is-required/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">published in a quiet title action</a> is not sufficient.  This problem was pointed out in a recent case where some deeds included a metes and bounds description (Metes and bounds are the boundaries of a parcel of real estate that identified by its natural landmarks and measurements), plus APNs.   The APN included area that is not within the metes and bounds description. One party said I own it all, and the other said no.</p>
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552								<p>Easements for road purposes are common in California.  But what happens when the width of the <a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/easements-for-road-access-is-parking-necessarily-included/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">granted easement</a> is far greater than the road actually used by the easement holder?  In a decision out of Napa the court held that a deed granting a <a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/exclusive-easements-california-language-must-clear/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">nonexclusive easement</a> of a specified width does not, as a matter of law, give the owner of the dominant tenement the right to use every portion of the easement; the owner has a right to place improvements on the easement as long as they don’t unreasonably interfere with the rights of the easement holder.  But the court <a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/california-court-may-not-extin/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">did not extinguish any part of the easesment</a>.</p>
553<p><a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/09/Sacramento-unexclusive-easement-attorney.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/09/Sacramento-unexclusive-easement-attorney.jpg" alt="Sacramento-unexclusive-easement-attorney" width="1024" height="691" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1961" srcset="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/09/Sacramento-unexclusive-easement-attorney.jpg 1024w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/09/Sacramento-unexclusive-easement-attorney-300x202.jpg 300w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/09/Sacramento-unexclusive-easement-attorney-768x518.jpg 768w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/09/Sacramento-unexclusive-easement-attorney-1000x675.jpg 1000w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/09/Sacramento-unexclusive-easement-attorney-178x120.jpg 178w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>Scruby is the owner of an acre of land and a single-family home at 7429 St. Helena Highway in Napa County, California. Grapevine owns and operates Cosentino Winery located at 7415 St. Helena Highway, consisting of 4 acres just south of Scruby’s property. The only access to Scruby’s landlocked property is over an easement on Grapevine’s property.</p>
554<p>The problem deed states that Scruby is granted “[a] nonexclusive easement, 52 feet in width, for road and utility purposes.” The <a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/the-floating-easement-what-it-is-and-how-it-is-established/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">precise boundaries of the easement</a> are set out in the deed by reference to a survey map and are generally described 
554in this litigation as a 52-foot wide corridor from Highway 29 along the northern side of the winery property proceeding westward and ending in a cul-de-sac 100 feet in diameter.</p>
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617<p><strong>The SCAM</strong></p>
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678								<p>What if you had an <a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/a-general-easement-is-not-what-you-think-it-is-when-easement-use-is-not-restricted-to-historic-use/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">easement</a> to place roads across property to access your own, and you then developed your property into a shopping center.  Could you include parking spaces in the <a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/the-floating-easement-what-it-is-and-how-it-is-established/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">easement area</a>?  A recent California decision points out the requirement to be clear in drafting easement language because only necessary incidental uses are included.</p>
679<p><a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/07/Sacramento-easement-attorney.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/07/Sacramento-easement-attorney.jpg" alt="Sacramento-easement-attorney" width="1024" height="654" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1941" srcset="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/07/Sacramento-easement-attorney.jpg 1024w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/07/Sacramento-easement-attorney-300x192.jpg 300w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/07/Sacramento-easement-attorney-768x491.jpg 768w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/07/Sacramento-easement-attorney-1000x639.jpg 1000w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/07/Sacramento-easement-attorney-188x120.jpg 188w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>In  <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13462169029539005813&amp;q=67+Cal+App+5th+61&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4,5">Prune v City &amp; County of San Francisco (67 CalApp 5th 61)</a> the City of San Francisco sought <a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/california-condemnation-eminen/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">eminent domain </a>and obtained title in 1951 to an 80-foot strip of land to construct a Hetch Hetchy pipeline to construct an underground pipeline conveying water to San Francisco from the grandparents of plaintiffs. The deed reserved certain rights in the plaintiffs’ family’s favor, including among other things the right to use the surface of the property for pasturage and the right to construct roads and streets “over and across” the property “but not along in the direction of the City’s pipeline or lines.”  Plaintiffs developed the property into a commercial center, and 75% of the pipeline property had been paved.  To allow this development, in 1967 the City granted a revocable permit to use the pipeline property for additional parking and landscaping for a fee of $50 per month.  Years later the City wanted to increase the permit fee from $50 to over $4,500, and this lawsuit resulted.</p>
680<p>The Deed to the City contained two reservations, fully set out below.  In summary,</p>
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742<p><a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14331374659792798264&amp;q=king+v+wu&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4,5" rel="noopener" target="_blank">In King v Wu</a>, a neighbor poured a concrete driveway partly encroaching on the neighboring property. The strip of driveway on the neighboring property (prescriptive strip) is a
742pproximately eight inches wide and 90 feet long.  Many years later the property suffering the trespass was sold, and the new owners began constructing a metal guardrail over the prescriptive strip. Three days later the Kings filed a complaint seeking to quiet title over the prescriptive strip.</p>
743<p><a href="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/07/Sacramento-prescriptive-easement-lawyer.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/07/Sacramento-prescriptive-easement-lawyer.jpg" alt="Sacramento-prescriptive-easement-lawyer" width="800" height="450" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1929" srcset="https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/07/Sacramento-prescriptive-easement-lawyer.jpg 800w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/07/Sacramento-prescriptive-easement-lawyer-300x169.jpg 300w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/07/Sacramento-prescriptive-easement-lawyer-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.calrealestatelawyersblog.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/147/2022/07/Sacramento-prescriptive-easement-lawyer-213x120.jpg 213w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></a>The owners raised one defense—that the property had been “continuously rented out,” and thus, as landlords, they had never been in possession over a period of five continuous years, and could not have filed an action for trespass or ejectment during that time.   The owners had several successive leases with different tenants.</p>
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