Pennsylvania Easements and Rights-of Way
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Agenda
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Friday, June 27, 2025
9:00 am – 4:00 pm EDT
Agenda:
Understanding Highway Rights-of-Way
Presented by D. Robert (Rob) Davidson, Esq., PLS
- Types of public and private roads in Pennsylvania
- Interstate highways, federal highways, state highways, county and local roads
- Private roads
- Identifying potential rights-of-way
- Negotiating and valuing rights-of-way
- Condemnation process
- Rights included in right-of-way
- Landowner rights
- Maintenance of right-of-way
- Alterations and encroachments
Easements: Understanding Possessive Rights in Lands of Others
Presented by Wendy Lathrop, PLS, CFM
- Distinctions between ownership and possession
- Easements distinguished from other possessory rights
- Types of easements and distinctions between them: appurtenant, in gross, affirmative, negative, and others
- Methods of easement creation
- Clues in documents to determine if interests are fee or easement
- The effect of the Statute of Frauds on possessory rights
- Methods of easement termination
- What happens after termination?
Disputes: Boundaries, Shared Spaces, and Split Estates
Presented by Wendy Lathrop, PLS, CFM
- 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
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Credits
Engineers
6.0 PDHs
Land Surveyors
6.0 PDHs
Attorneys
6.0 CLE Hours
Continuing Education Information
This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for 6.0 PDHs for professional engineers and land surveyors in Pennsylvania. Continuing education courses for Pennsylvania engineers and land surveyors are not subject to pre-approval requirements. This course may qualify for continuing education credits for other state licenses; refer to specific state rules to determine eligibility.
HalfMoon Education is an approved CLE provider for Pennsylvania attorneys (No. 1613); this webinar offers 6.0 CLE hours to Pennsylvania attorneys.
Attendance will be monitored, and attendance certificates will be available after the webinar for those who attend the entire course and score a minimum 80% on the quiz that follows the course (multiple attempts allowed).
*On-Demand Credits*
The preceding credit information only applies to the live presentation. This course in an on-demand format is not pre-approved by any licensing boards and may not qualify for the same credits; please consult your licensing board(s) to ensure that a structured, asynchronous learning format is appropriate.
Speakers
D. Robert (Rob) Davidson, Esq., PLS
Partner with Hummel, Lewis & Davidson, LLP in BloomsburgMr. Davidson is partner with Hummel, Lewis & Davidson, LLP, in Bloomsburg, where his practice emphasizes real estate, boundary disputes and land use. He serves as solicitor for several municipalities and planning commissions. Mr. Davidson previously served as Chief of Land Use and Natural Resources for the Department of Agriculture, where he worked with the permitting of agricultural facilities, Clean and Green, and Agricultural Conservation Easements. Prior to joining the Department, he worked in zoning, planning and code enforcement for local government and as a surveyor and project manager for a civil engineering firm. Mr. Davidson is a Pennsylvania resident title insurance agent, Pennsylvania sewage enforcement officer (SEO), and Pennsylvania licensed land surveyor (PLS).
Wendy Lathrop, PLS, CFM, CFS
President and Owner of Cadastral Consulting, LLCMs. 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 entitled 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.
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