Georgia has no shared-cost or 'good neighbor' fence statute, so each Forsyth County owner builds and pays for their own fence on their own side of the surveyed property line. Disputes are civil matters.
Fence disputes in Forsyth County are governed by Georgia common law, not a cost-sharing statute. Georgia never enacted a good-neighbor fence act, so a neighbor has no obligation to split the cost of a boundary fence. Build entirely on your own side of the line; a survey settles the true boundary before posts go in. A fence built to spite a neighbor with no legitimate use can be attacked as a common-law private nuisance. The county does not referee boundary or cost disputes, and recorded HOA covenants may add their own fence rules.
A fence encroaching on a neighbor's land is a civil trespass a court can order moved or removed. Cost and boundary disputes are resolved in magistrate or superior court, not by the county.
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