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SW MO | Found this for you:
Only if the neighbor has livestock placed against the division fence can he be forced to pay for half the cost of construction, as well as be required to maintain the right-hand half. If the neighbor doesn't have livestock against the fence, you will have to put up the entire cost of the division fence and maintain the entire fence. Most other states allowed "compulsory contribution" whether or not the reluctant neighboring landowner has livestock against the division fence.
A landowner building the entire division fence must report the total cost to the associate circuit judge, who will authorize the cost to be recorded on each neighbor's deed. If your neighbor later places livestock against the division fence, then the landowner who built the entire division fence can get reimbursed for one-half the construction costs. See Chapter 272.060.1 (http://www.moga.mo.gov/mostatutes/stathtml/27200000601.html) and Chapter 272.132 (http://www.moga.mo.gov/mostatutes/stathtml/27200001321.html) of the new Missouri statute.
Under the prior law, either neighbor could force the other neighbor to pay for half of both the construction and the maintenance of a division fence, regardless of whether the reluctant neighbor had livestock against the fence. This continues to be the fencing law in most Midwestern states.
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