Boundaries and Easements Seminar
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Before purchasing, review the rules of your licensing or certifying entity. It is your responsibility to confirm this course meets your CE requirements. See the credit tab on the course page for details.
What’s Included: Full webinar recording, written course materials, expert instruction, a mandatory quiz, and a certificate upon completion.
Deliverability Timeline: All courses are generally available within 1-2 weeks after the live presentation.
CE Credits: AIA and/or LA/CES accreditation is available by request for courses recorded prior to March 11, 2026. All courses after that date include those accreditations by default, if applicable. With these accreditations, our courses qualify for credit in nearly all states for engineers, surveyors, architects, and landscape architects.
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Agenda
Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Morning Session: 8:30 – 11:45 am
Lunch (On your own): 11:45 am – 12:45 pm
Afternoon Session: 12:45 – 5:30 pm
Locating Land Boundaries on Paper (And on the Ground)
Interpreting land descriptions
• Priority of calls
• Metes and bounds (calls and distances)
• Aliquot parts
Writing legal descriptions
• Do not attempt to rewrite call and distance descriptions
• Make reference to recorded plat
Applying principals of boundary location
• Utilizing priority of calls to determine boundaries
• Boundary by acquiescence
• Locating the described land on the map, on the ground
and using geographic information systems (GIS)
Solving land description and boundary location problems
Classifying and Locating Easements
Easement v. license v. profit-a-prendre
Easement in gross v. easement appurtenant
Utility easements
Easements by grant – should you let the surveyor do it?
Prescriptive easements
Easement by necessity
Easement by implication
Easement by estoppel
Termination and abandoning easements
Who maintains easement
Adverse Possession
Statutory authority
Adverse possession v. prescriptive easement
Litigating adverse possession claims
Riparian Boundaries
The rules in regard to riparian boundaries
Practical application of rules
Resolving Boundary and Easement Disputes
Ethical Issues in Real Estate
In transactions
In litigation
Credits
Attorneys
7.5 New Mexico CLE Hours,
including 1.0 Ethics hour
New Mexico Title Insurance Producers
8.0 Credit Hours
Professional Land Surveyors &
Professional Engineers
7.5 PDHs
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public. The New Mexico MCLE Board has approved this course for 7.5 CLE hours, including 1.0 ethics hour, for attorneys.
This seminar offers 7.5 PDHs to New Mexico land surveyors and 7.5 PDHs to New Mexico professional engineers to whom the subject matter is professionally relevant. Educators and courses are not subject to pre-approval in New Mexico.
The New Mexico Office of Superintendent of Insurance has approved this course for 8.0 credit hours for title insurance producers.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the seminar for most individuals who complete the entire event. Attendance certificates not available at the seminar will be mailed to participants within fifteen business days.
Speakers
John Patterson
Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin, & Robb, P.A.Of Counsel at Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin, & Robb, P.A. in Santa FeMr. Patterson is a frequent speaker on continuing legal education subjects both in New Mexico and nationally. He is a fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, where he serves on the Opinions and Common Interest Ownership Committees, and he is a member of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys. Mr. Patterson has documented scores of common interest communities, including both condominium and subdivision projects, and he regularly represents developers, lenders and many common interest communities. He has represented both borrowers and local and money-center banks in commercial and refinance transactions. He has practiced in Santa Fe since 1971, and his practice has concentrated on commercial lending, real estate development (condominium development in particular), representation of common interest communities and resolution of disputes arising from claims of easements. Mr. Patterson was named Santa Fe Real Estate Lawyer of the Year-2013 by The Best Lawyers in America. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America every year since 1993 for his expertise and experience in real estate law. He is also listed in Chambers USA-America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and in Southwest Super Lawyers for his expertise and experience in real estate law. Mr. Patterson has achieved the “AV” or highest Martindale-Hubbell rating.
Thomas Simons
The Simons Firm, LLPFounder and partner in The Simons Firm, LLP in Santa FeMr. Simons maintains a general civil litigation practice, with emphasis on real estate litigation, property and real estate transactions, and title insurance litigation. He received his B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Southern Methodist University and his J.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Simons is a member of the American Land Title Association, the First Judicial District Bar Association, the State Bar of New Mexico, the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association, the New Mexico Defense Lawyers Association and the Federation of Corporate and Insurance Counsel.