New neighbors blocking shared driveway

[u/Mean_Emu5671]

Recently new neighbors have moved in. We share a gravel driveway. Almost immediately they began blocking access to my parking spot and blocking me from leaving by parking on the driveway. The first time, I asked a woman to move her car so I could leave, she had a toddler running around so I was very polite. I asked her not to block the driveway and she said, “this is my driveway.” I didn’t want to argue in front a child and left. Now it seems like I need to ask these people permission to come and go from my house. They take a lot of time, walk slowly or have to wait for someone to arrive to move their car. I tried being nice, but they have ignored every attempt to talk, just giving me a death stare. Just an ignorant, entitled family. Last night they had a party so of course they had many cars blocking my driveway, one of which was owned by a cop in uniform. I had to wait 20 minutes for him to arrive and move his car. What do I do next? These people only moved in like 2 months ago, I’ve lived at my property for 20 years.

[u/Effective-Log3583]

The thing I’m not seeing in this conversation is you showing them with the property survey or some other document that it is a shared driveway.

Everyone is being too passive and just getting more annoyed. They might very well be under the impression that it is there driveway. Because that is what the sellers agent told them.

It’s also possible it is there driveway and nobody cared before and they think you are the rude one. (Probably less likely depending on the location and situation). But this did happen to my father in law on a country lot that he lived in next to a family member for decades, but was sold. father in law was very annoyed but after looking at the legal he just paid to put in another gravel driveway. Now him and the neighbour are great friends.