Can I recover damages to the part of my property that is left after a partial taking of my property?
Legally, landowners are entitled to damages to any property remaining after a taking has occurred. Damages to remaining property is known as severance damages. When analyzing just compensation for a partial taking, your attorney should consider any potential depreciation in the value of the property remaining after the taking. If your property is unusable after the taking because the government took such a large area or because the government limited access, you may be left with a property that has no real value, so your request for damages would include a near total taking of value.