Ordinances vary from city to city, but generally speaking, the owner of the property where the tree is growing is responsible for the tree. If the tree’s branches extend over a neighboring yard, the neighbor has the legal right to trim the branches back to the property line.
If you plan to live in your house for any length of time, it’s worth talking with your neighbor and seeing if you can’t come to some sort of peaceable arrangement, because tree problems have been known to start big feuds among neighbors, and that’s no way to live if you can avoid it.
Ordinances vary from city to city, but generally speaking, the owner of the property where the tree is growing is responsible for the tree. If the tree’s branches extend over a neighboring yard, the neighbor has the legal right to trim the branches back to the property line.
If you plan to live in your house for any length of time, it’s worth talking with your neighbor and seeing if you can’t come to some sort of peaceable arrangement, because tree problems have been known to start big feuds among neighbors, and that’s no way to live if you can avoid it.