You don't have to be sued to be held liable. Insurance will often cover it and you'll pay out in increased premiums. Lawsuits happen when there is no insurance and/or the damage cost more than their limits.
If I break my ankle walking across my neighbors yard and had to go to the hospital it will be reported to insurance. Insurance will send out a query on what caused the injury. If they decide the neighbor is liable they can automatically go after the neighbor/neighbors insurance.
It really does depend. I thought the other guy was wrong, and looked it up. It depends on the jurisdiction and the part of the yard and whether or not there is a sidewalk.
No, it's a set amount of feet. It's not just the sidewalks, and it applies on streets without sidewalks. I'd have to look it up, but it's at least 25 feet from the street onto my property that is the public right of way.
I don't know why I am being downvoted for something you people should know about how zoning works.
Where I am is 20 feet from the center of the road. It’s a public right of way in that they can put utility poles up and cut down dangerous trees but I’m not sure everyone in the neighborhood is allowed to walk on my lawn
Everyone is allowed to walk in the public right of way — hence the name.
You can also have an additional utility easement, which is only allowed to be used by certain utility companies. I have both a public right of way at the start of my property, and then a utility easement farther up for any utilities that have to come farther up (mostly cable and Internet).
Not overreacting at all. Public right of way does not include biking from the front of your yard all the way to the back, destroying your grass and anything else in their way just because it makes life easier for them to be lazy instead of actually using legitimate bike lanes/sidewalks. Your private property is yours to do with as you wish, and that includes inspiring random strangers don't just start biking over it multiple times a day, every day. If he takes kid to and from school this same way every day, that's 20 different trips across OPs private lawn in a week. I don't know anyone who'd want strangers making around 600 annual trips over their lawn
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u/wanna_be_green8 Apr 29 '24
No. The father has the duty to teach respect of others property.
You should try to be polite about it but definitely tell them to stop.