Agenda

Thursday, September 26, 2019, 1:00 – 2:30 PM CDT

   Distinctions between trespass, adverse possession and prescriptive rights

   Maintaining adverse claims

      – Statute of limitations

      – Elements of a claim

   “Lost grant” claims

   Quiet title actions

   Acquiescence, laches, estoppel, and equity

   Less litigious approaches to settling land interest disputes   

      – Practical location and boundary line agreements

      – Boundary line commissions

Webinar Instructions

All attendees must log-on through their own email – attendees may not watch together if they wish to earn continuing education credit. HalfMoon Education Inc. must be able to prove attendance if either the attendee or HalfMoon Education Inc. is audited.

Certificates of completion can be downloaded in PDF form upon passing a short quiz. A link to the quiz will be sent to each qualifying attendee immediately after the webinar. The certificate can be downloaded from the Results page of the quiz upon scoring 80% or higher.

Webinars are presented via GoToWebinar, an easy-to-use application that can be run on most systems and tablets. Instructions and login information will be provided in an email sent close to the date of the webinar. It is highly recommended that you download, install and test the application before the webinar begins by clicking on the link in the email.

 

GoToWebinar App requirements: 
Windows 7 – 10 or Mac OSX 10.9 (Mavericks) – 10.14 (Mojave)

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The two most recent version of the following browsers:
Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge
Internet Explorer v11 (or later) with Flash enabled


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Credits

Professional Engineers: 
     1.5 PDHs/CE Hours

Architects:
     1.5 LU|HSW

Professional Land Surveyors:
     1.5 PDHs/CE Hours (NJ approval Pending)

Continuing Education Credit Information

Each of these webinars offer professional engineers and professional land surveyors 1.5 professional development/continuing education hours. These webinars are designed to qualify for continuing education credit in all states.

HalfMoon Education is an approved continuing education sponsor for professional land surveyors and engineers in Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, and North Dakota. HalfMoon Education is also an approved continuing education provider for Florida and New Jersey engineers (Approval No. 24GP00000700).

These webinars have been approved for Florida, Tennessee, and Texas land surveyors. Course approval is pending for Kentucky, Missouri, and New Jersey land surveyors. Other states do not require preapproval of continuing education providers or activities.

HalfMoon Education Inc. is deemed an approved sponsor of continuing education for New York engineers and land surveyors (Regulations of the Commissioner §68.14(i)(2) and §68.15(i)(2))

These webinars offer continuing education credit to architects in most states. The American Institute of Architects Continuing Education System has approved a total of 4.5 LU|HSW and 1.5 LU|Elective (The Physical Evidence and Boundaries webinar is not designated HSW).

In order to obtain a continuing education certificate, each licensed participant must be logged on to his or her own computer and complete a quiz following each presentation. Certificates will not be issued to multiple participants on one computer.

Speakers

Wendy Lathrop, PLS, CFM, CFS

President and Owner of Cadastral Consulting, LLC

Ms. Lathrop is licensed as a professional land surveyor in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, and as a professional planner in New Jersey. She holds a master’s degree in Environmental Policy and has been involved in surveying since 1974 in projects ranging from construction to boundary to environmental land use disputes. Ms. Lathrop is also a certified floodplain manager through the Association of State Flood Plain Managers (ASFPM) and a Certified Floodplain Surveyor through the New Jersey Society of Professional Land Surveyors. A former adjunct instructor at Mercer County College in New Jersey, she has also taught as part of the team for the licensing exam review course at Drexel University in Pennsylvania. Ms. Lathrop has been teaching seminars for surveyors since 1986 and has been writing articles for surveyors since 1983. She is a contributing editor for The American Surveyor magazine, and she has four articles included in the American Bar Association’s text, Land Surveys: A Guide for Lawyers and Other Professionals. She and Stephen V. Estopinal, PLS, PE co–authored a book titled Professional Surveyors and Real Property Descriptions: Composition, Construction, and Comprehension, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in 2011. She is also on the faculty of GeoLearn, a web-based educational provider. Ms. Lathrop is a past president of the New Jersey Society of Professional Land Surveyors and of the National Society of Professional Surveyors, and she has served on the Board of Directors for the American Association for Geodetic Surveying.