Georgia has no shared-cost or 'good neighbor' fence statute, so each Columbia County owner builds and pays for their own fence on their own surveyed side of the line. Disputes are civil matters.
Fence disputes in Columbia County fall under Georgia common law, not a cost-sharing statute. Georgia never passed a good-neighbor fence act, so a neighbor has no duty to split the cost of a boundary fence. Build entirely on your own side of the line, and get a survey before setting posts. A fence put up purely to spite a neighbor, serving no legitimate purpose, can be challenged as a common-law private nuisance. The county does not referee boundary or cost disputes, and recorded HOA covenants may add their own fence terms.
A fence encroaching on a neighbor's land is a civil trespass a court can order moved or removed. Cost and boundary disputes are settled in magistrate or superior court, not by the county.
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