Boundary Law, Easements and Riparian Rights
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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 pm – 5:00 pm
Locating Land Boundaries on Paper (and on the Ground)
Interpreting land descriptions
• Metes and bounds
• Lot and block
• Aliquot parts
• Area and linear
• Strip
• Combination descriptions
• Dos and don’ts for writing descriptions
Applying principles of boundary location
• Collecting and evaluating boundary evidence:
records, field and parol
• 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
Easements and surveys: an overview
How to determine if the property is encumbered by an easement
Definitions: what is an easement?
Types of written and unwritten easements under Indiana law
Characteristics of easements
Easement maintenance: who is responsible?
Interfering with an easement:
what constitutes interference and overburdening?
Terminating easements: the when and how
Understanding Riparian Rights and Access to Surface Water
History and development of riparian rights
Definitions relating to riparian rights
Navigable vs. nonnavigable
Determining land boundaries near the water line (accretion, erosion,
reliction, avulsion, the riparian zone and riparian zone boundaries)
Determining access rights to surface waters
Limitations on rights to surface waters
Credits
Attorneys
7.0 Indiana CLE Hours
Indiana Professional
Land Surveyors & Engineers
7.0 PDHs
Indiana Insurance Producers
7.0 Credit Hours
Continuing Education Credit Information
This seminar is open to the public. HalfMoon Education is an Indiana-approved CLE provider for attorneys, and this course is approved for 7.0 General CLE hours.
The Indiana Land Surveyor Board has approved HalfMoon Education as a continuing education provider. This course offers 7.0 PDHs. The State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers has approved HalfMoon Education as a continuing education provider. The course offers engineers 7.0 PDHs.
The Indiana Department of Insurance has approved this course for 7.0 continuing education credit hours (Provider No. 70657).
Attendance will be monitored and reported, as required by the course approval entities. 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
Gary R. Kent
Meridian Land Consulting, LLCMr. Kent is in his 40th year with Schneider Geomatics in Indianapolis – having transitioned to part-time status in 2020. He also provides training, consulting and expert witness services as manager and owner of Meridian Land Consulting, LLC. He served as chair of the Joint ALTA/NSPS Committee responsible for the ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey standards from 1995 to 2021. He also served on the Indiana State Board of Registration for Professional Surveyors from 2004-2025 and is a past-president of both ACSM and the Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors. Mr. Kent has presented programs on boundary law, easements and rights of way, surveying standards and practice, and leadership multiple times in all 50 states.