Neighbor is using my well, it's not in my deed that they have a right to it. If it's on their deed, do they?

Just make sure there is not a separate "attached" easement mentioned in the description on your deed.  I bought a house and no one told me it has a "Quit Claim Deed-Statutory Form" containing a sewer/water easement for the house behind me.

It's an attachment mentioned in the house deed and was filed completely separately from the actual deed.Have had nothing but problems because of it and am planning on trying to get the easement vacated.

If the well is on your property and there is no easement, you can do what you wish with the well.  No, his deed will give him no rights, he doesn't own the well property.

Your lawyer needs to hire or do an actual "title search" on your property and that of the neighbor to determine whether there was EVER any sort of documentation about the shared well.  It's not necessarily on your "deed". 

Do not do anything until you find out if you REALLY have rights.

Either shut off the water or sue the people who sold you the house.  I would shut off the water and sue the seller.  They had a legal responsibility to inform you in writing about the well situation.  Be sure to throw in 30% for your attorney, all moving and relocation costs, cost for temporary housing elsewhere and another $10,000 for grief.  Your neighbor is a low -life scumbag and he will never change.

There is absolutely no scenario where you're going to get away with cutting off water to a neighbor as petty revenge for them (presumably) lawfully hunting and harvesting a deer.

Water rights and well share agreements are often documented on the property records or in neighborhood covenants but not necessarily written on the deed. They may also be governed by state laws and not show up directly on the property records at all. But these rules and rights are still very much legally enforceable regardless of the manner in which they're documented. It is very common for multiple properties to be serviced by a single well, and the owner of the property where the well is located does not have some sort of superior claim to the well.

The bottom line is that shutting off your neighbor's water would be a huge mistake. You'll start a feud and end any chance of living peacefully next to them. They'll probably take you to court and win an emergency injunction ordering you to turn the water back on and leave it on. If you violate the judges orders on this matter you can be arrested and thrown in jail for contempt of court. Furthermore the neighbor could successfully sue you to recover their legal expenses.

As for your attorney - what did they actually check. As I said before water rights are typically listed on the deed, but often found elsewhere in the property records or applicable laws. A well doesn't necessarily require access, so its entirely possible there's no access easement granting them the right to come onto your property - but that's different than having the right to use water from the well.

If you spent money on a new pump and the neighbor hasn't paid their share then you can take them to court and show the applicable information to a judge to get a legal ruling on whether or not they must pay, and if so you will get an enforceable judgement against them.

You can also address the issue of the pump being connected to your electric meter - perhaps the court will order the neighbor to pay you a fixed amount on a recurring basis to cover the approximate cost of electricity for the pump. Make sure you go in prepared with valid information about how much power the pump consumes and how much that actually costs each month. In some cases a shared well can be equipped with a separate power meter and the bill is shared among all households on that well.

All of this is completely separate from your choice to be vegetarian and their choice to hunt and butcher an animal. About 95% of the population of the USA eats meat. You have every right to be vegetarian but you don't get to control other people. If you believe their hunting & butchering methods violate the law then call the game warden. If you just don't like it then you can ask them to hang the next deer in the back yard out of sight, but they don't have to comply. And you certainly don't get to just shut off their water because you don't like it. 

The sharing of the well will not show up in the deed unless there's an easement for it.  It won't appear on a survey either unless there is an easement.

It appears the issue is not the well, the ISSUE is that these people are not only not vegans...they ALSO hunt and butcher their meat.

So...#1 did they do it on your property?  If yes they are trespassing and you can report them to authorities.  If no, then double check the laws in your area.  In MY area you are not allowed to 'butcher game'.  Hunters must take their kills to a special place or out of the city limits.

My friend lives in a rural area.  They are not allowed to butcher their kills in the front yard.  What are the laws concerning hunting and butchering in your area?

Follow up on those as you are unlikely to win the water war.

I would consult an attorney. I wouldn't do anything like shutting their water off until I did.

Things like easements and water rights are not always printed on deeds.  That doesn't mean they don't exist.

Just curious...would you build a home on a piece of property that had no legal access to water?   Would you think the county would approve such a building plan?

Their use of the well was probably established whenever the house was built.

"We were not told that the neighbor was using the well on my property."   Did the seller lie on the disclosure form or was the question simply not asked?   Two different things.    You had opportunity to inspect the well before purchasing.

A title search on both properties may reveal more information.  Your attorney doesn't sound too on top of things.

Obviously, it's time to get a new lawyer if this is what this attorney really said.

The neighbor didn't crawl in the dead of night and add the pipes to your house in the last year.  The pipers were added to connect his house to the well many years ago clearly upon mutual agreement.  Maybe before both of you lived there.  No court is going to say that all of a sudden this isn't a legal usage of your water. 

"A lawyer looked at my deed and they have no right of way to my well."....so another guestion to ask your lawyer