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How to gain access to my house?
My husband and I have our house on my
in-laws property. We have been arranging
to move our house for a month. My in-
laws have now put up a fence and
completely blocked access to our house.
They hand wrote a note giving us until
11/17 to move our house and belongings
from property but now have made that
impossible. Cops can’t help unless I
file for a Writ of Possession they say.
What do we do?
Asked on October 28, 2018 under Real Estate Law, North Carolina
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 5 years ago | Contributor
The sheriff's officers are correct: they need a court order, in the form of the appropriate writ, to authorize them to grant you access. Your in-laws have no legal right to simply block you out of the place where you had been residing, so a court will readily grant you the proper order. Go to your county court's clerk's office, explain what has happened, and they can provide forms and instructions.
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