Q: This is related to a joint land ownership
My father and his brother do own a land which is a joint land inherited from their parents. My father's brother has back then (more than 30 years ago) has told my father that he won't mind my father demolishing the old parents house and reconstructing the house as he won't come to live in it so that my father can live at the newly built house. This was more than 30 years ago.
Now my fathers brother is telling that he owns half of the house that my father built which also he did not spent a penny to built it.
The house is built only using half of the land and the other land is free.
He doesn't talk with my father so let's say they aren't pretty much agreeing to anything.
So what is the lawful solutions for these matters because I feel like we are not in our own house though we have been living for 30 years.
A: It appears an Action for a Sale for Partition will need to be filed. Apparently both brothers own the home.
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