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1. Background and Property Layout:
In our Village, Our family resides on a 20 ft wide plot of land.
Immediately adjacent to our house is my grandmother’s tiled house, where she currently lives alone.
Between our house and my grandmother’s house, there is a 3.5 ft wide strip of empty space.
The current physical layout of the family houses from left to right is: First Uncle’s House | Second Uncle’s House | Third Uncle’s House | My House | Grandmother’s House.
2. Nature of the Disputed Property:
My grandmother is currently alive.
Her property is ancestral and remains legally undivided between my father and his brothers (my uncles).
There are currently no formal partition deeds, boundary agreements, or legal documents dividing the grandmother’s property among the heirs.
3. The Core Dispute:
My family has been exclusively using the 3.5 ft empty space between our house and the grandmother’s house for several years without any objection.
We recently decided to utilize and renovate this 3.5 ft space. However, my uncles are now actively objecting.
They are demanding that my grandmother’s property be divided sequentially in the exact same order as our current houses.
Crucially, they are strongly arguing against the legal and practical principle of contiguity. They are explicitly refusing to allow our rightful share to be allocated adjacent to our existing home, insisting instead on enforcing their arbitrary sequence rule to block us from the 3.5 ft space.
4. Our Concession and Good Faith Approach:
We are currently not asking for our full legal share of the grandmother’s property.
If a formal and equal legal partition were to happen today, our rightful share would amount to significantly more than this 3.5 ft strip, which would inevitably require demolishing a portion of my grandmother’s house.
To avoid causing distress to my grandmother and to prevent the destruction of her home while she is alive, we are simply requesting the rights to use and renovate the existing empty 3.5 ft strip immediately adjacent to our home.
5. Steps Taken So Far:
We have attempted to resolve this amicably through multiple discussions with my uncles.
We have also involved the village heads/elders to mediate the dispute.
All informal and mediation attempts have failed, as the uncles are entirely unwilling to grant us this small adjacent space, despite our concession to not demand our full share at this time.
6. Objective:
I am seeking counsel on our immediate legal rights to continue using and renovating the 3.5 ft space based on our settled possession and our right to a share of the undivided property.
I would like to explore obtaining a temporary injunction/stay order to legally prevent my uncles from interfering with our use of this specific strip.
I also need advice on the legal mechanisms available to protect our eventual full share of the property—specifically ensuring it is contiguous to our current home—without forcing a disruptive full partition while my grandmother is still living.
Apart from my statement, it is just that they are feeling jealous that we are younger than them and building a bigger home than them. Their sons are unemployed and they don’t have enough money to either renovate or build a home.
TL;DR
We are seeking legal counsel to secure a 3.5 ft strip of undivided ancestral land adjacent to our home, which we have used peacefully for years. To avoid demolishing our living grandmother’s house for a full partition, we are only claiming this small space rather than our full share. However, my uncles are blocking our renovation, explicitly rejecting the legal principle of contiguity and insisting on an arbitrary sequential division of the property.
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