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 – 4:40 pm

Locating Land Boundaries on Paper (And on the Ground)
K. Dedrick

   Interpreting land descriptions
      • Metes and bounds
      • Lot and block
      • Dos and don’ts for writing descriptions
   Applying principles of boundary location
      • Collecting and evaluating all types of boundary evidence: documents, physical evidence, people, surveys
      • Locating the described land on a map
      • Locating the described land on the ground
      • Understanding and using geographic information systems (GIS)
   Solving land description and boundary location problems

Identifying, Classifying and Locating Easements
B. Quitmeier

   What is and is not an easement
   Reviewing state law on easements
   Creating easements: easements by necessity, easements by use, written easements
   Identifying critical distinctions between easements in gross, easements appurtenant and prescriptive easements
   Maintaining easements
   Knowing when and how to terminate easements
   Obstructing use of easements and determining remedies for obstruction

Defining Trespass and Adverse Possession
R. Davis

   Defining trespass
   Reviewing the history of adverse possession
   Maintaining a claim for adverse possession
      • Statute of limitations
      • Elements of a claim
   Defending against a claim for adverse possessions
   Examining recent adverse possession cases

Resolving Boundary Disputes
R. Davis

   Types of boundary disputes
      • Adverse possession, easements, boundaries
   Obtaining and reviewing boundary evidence
   Methods for establishing disputed boundaries
   Participating in dispute resolution techniques
   Litigation, arbitration, mediation, agreements, title insurance
   Examining boundary dispute case studies: exploringtechniques for resolving sample disputes

Understanding Utility Easements and Rights of Way
J. Wilson

   Current law on utility rights of way
      • Federal laws and regulations
      • State laws and regulations
   Types of utilities affected
      • Electric, water, natural gas, telecommunications, satellite communications
      • Basis for and definition of the easement
      • Encroachments and interferences
      • Maintenance
      • Environmental issues
      • Condemnation law
      • Current issues involving utility easements

Credits

Attorneys
     8.0 Kansas CLE Hours
     8.0 Missouri CLE Hours

Title Insurance Producers
     4.0 Kansas CE Hours

Professional Engineers
     6.5 PDHs

Land Surveyors
     6.5 Kansas PDHs
     Missouri Pending

Continuing Education Credit Information

This seminar is open to the public and has been approved for 8.0 CLE hours for Kansas and Missouri attorneys.

This seminar is approved for 4.0 Title continuing education hours for Kansas insurance producers.

This event offers 6.5 PDHs to Kansas land surveyors and engineers. Educators and courses are not subject to preapproval in Kansas. Course approval is applied for and pending for Missouri land surveyors.

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

Rick Davis

Rick Davis Legal

Attorney at Rick Davis Legal in Overland Park, KSMr. Davis graduated from the University of Kansas before earning his law degree from Washburn University School of Law. He is licensed to practice in both Kansas and Missouri. After spending time as a partner with a large firm in South Florida, Mr. Davis returned to the Kansas City area and started his own practice. While at the previous firm, he represented many of the nation’s largest banks and mortgage servicing companies in the areas of residential real estate and mortgage lending. His practice focuses primarily on the areas of residential real estate and he regularly represents individual homeowners, contractors, landlords, property managers, home buyers and sellers, real estate agents, home owners associations and others within the real estate industry. Current and former clients include Bank of America, Ocwen, Lumber Liquidators, Stonehouse Rentals, Schaedler Enterprises, and Wells Fargo. Mr. Davis has been quoted as a real estate attorney in numerous national and local news publications, including, the Associated Press, ABC News, the New York Times, Realtor.com and the Kansas City Star.

Kenneth Dedrick

Kaw Valley Engineering, Inc.

Survey Manager at Kaw Valley Engineering, Inc. in Lenexa, KSMr. Dedrick is a professional land surveyor licensed in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa and Tennessee. He has over 39 years of land surveying experience, performing over 2000 ALTA, boundary, topographic, engineering and control surveys. Currently Mr. Dedrick manages and directs five to seven survey crews in the performance of land surveys, geodetic control surveys, engineering surveys, global positioning (GPS) system control networks, and construction surveys. He is a speaker at the University of Missouri Kansas City Law School on Legal Aspects of Surveying and Boundary Description Creation and Interpretation. He is also a past member of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) national test writing committee. Mr. Dedrick is a past chairman of the Missouri Society of Professional Land Surveyors (MSPS) handbook committee. He revised the MSPS Survey Safety Manual, later adopted by the City of Lenexa, Kansas, and Miami County, Kansas, Survey Department. Mr. Dedrick was a contributing member of the National Geodetic Survey Height Modernization Committee in Washington, D.C. in 2000. He is also a previous speaker at the Kansas Society of Land Surveyors annual seminar and National Business Institute.

William Quitmeier

Quitmeier Law Firm

President at Quitmeier Law firm in Kansa City, MOMr. Quitmeier has been practicing law for nearly 40 years. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of Kansas in 1973 and his Juris Doctor degree, also from the University of Kansas, in 1975. He is the owner of Quitmeier law firm and has held a real estate brokers license since 1977. Mr. Quitmeier is licensed to practice law in the states of Kansas and Missouri. He served as alderman for the City of Parkville from 1985 to 1991 and then as mayor from 1991 to 2002. Mr. Quitmeier is also an experienced teacher. He has taught environmental law at Park University and has teaching experience in the areas of real estate law, real estate contracts, and business law.

Jeffrey Wilson

Anderson & Byrd, LLP

Associate at Anderson & Byrd, LLP in Ottawa, KSMr. Wilson received his undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas in 2010 and received his law degree from Washburn University School of Law in 2014. He joined Anderson & Byrd, LLP in 2014 as an associate, and is admitted to practice before all courts in Kansas including the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas. Mr. Wilson is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. The bulk of his experience lies with oil and gas law and electric utility regulation. Specifically, Mr. Wilson has practiced in the areas of title examination, transactional drafting, leasing disputes, general litigation, arbitration, disputes involving electric utilities, and representation before the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) on behalf of public utilities and oil and gas operators. He is a member of the Kansas Bar Association’s, Oil, Gas and Mineral Law section and is the president of the Franklin County Bar Association. Mr. Wilson is also the city attorney for Richmond, Kansas.

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