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, LLC

Mr. 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.