This 3-page fact sheet provides answers to these questions: What is the rule for the removal of a healthy tree on a boundary line? What is the liability for over-hanging branches and encroaching roots? and, Which landowner is responsible for dead or live trees falling on adjoining property? Written by Michael T. Olexa, Eugene E. Shuey, and Patrick H. Todd, and published by the UF Department of Food and Resource Economics, November 2014.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fe962
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CIR1242/FE889 Handbook of Florida Fence and Property Law
Now available online as a single pdf. CIR1242, a 46-page handbook by Michael T. Olexa, Eugene E. Shuey, Joshua A. Cossey, and Katherine Smallwood, informs property owners of their rights and responsibilities in terms of their duty to fence. Discussed areas include a property owners responsibility to fence when livestock is kept on the property, the rights of adjoining landowners to fence, the placement of fences, encroachments, boundary lines, easements, contracts, nuisances, and a landowners responsibilities towards persons who enter his property. Published by the UF Department of Food and Resource Economics, August 2010.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fe889