Georgia has no good-neighbor fence statute, so Paulding County neighbors do not have to split fence costs. Each owner builds and pays for their own fence, and boundary disputes are settled in civil court.
Georgia law does not force an adjoining owner to share the cost of a boundary fence; there is no statewide good-neighbor fence act. In Paulding County a homeowner who wants a fence generally builds it at their own expense and on their own side of the surveyed line. A fence a neighbor never uses creates no payment duty. When both owners share and use a line fence, common-law principles can support a proportionate contribution, but that is a civil matter, not something county animal control or code enforcement referees. A recorded survey settles the true boundary; the superior court resolves encroachment and cost claims. HOA covenants may add their own fence-maintenance duties.
Building over the line onto a neighbor's land is a civil trespass a court can order removed. Cost-sharing and encroachment fights are resolved in superior court, not by the county, which does not enforce boundary lines.
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