Agenda

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Wednesday, December 11, 2024 
1:00 – 4:30 pm EST
Thursday, December 12, 2024 
1:00 – 4:30 pm EST

 

Presented by: Wendy Lathrop, PLS, CFM, CFS

Agenda Day One:
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 | 1:00 – 4:30 pm EST

Locating Pennsylvania Land Boundaries on Paper (And on the Ground)

  • Interpreting intent in common types of land descriptions in PA
    •  Metes and bounds – Reference to a subdivision
    •  Reference to a tax parcel – “Strip” descriptions
    •  3-D descriptions
  • Dos and don’ts for writing descriptions
  • Applying principles of boundary location
    •  Collecting and evaluating evidence of boundary location: documents, physical evidence, people, surveys
    •  Understanding the role of geographic information systems (GIS)
  • Addressing discrepancies between land descriptions and boundary locations

Identifying, Classifying and Locating Easements

  • 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
  • Obstructing use of easements and determining remedies for obstruction
  • Knowing how to terminate easements

Trespass, Adverse Possession and Other Unauthorized Access to Land

  • Elements of civil trespass to land
  • Reviewing the history of adverse possession
  • Maintaining a claim for adverse possession
  • Defending against a claim for adverse possession
  • Examining recent adverse possession cases

 

Agenda Day Two:
Thursday, December 12, 2024 | 1:00 – 4:30 pm EST

Resolving Boundary Disputes

  • 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 cases

Accommodating Surface Use and Mineral Rights (Split Estates)

  • History and development of severed mineral rights
  • Exercising rights to mineral access and development
  • How dormant mineral rights laws vary between states
  • Examining disputes between surface owners and mineral rights owners

Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law

  • Understanding eminent domain powers
    • Source of eminent domain powers
    • History of the exercise of eminent domain powers
    • Types of eminent domain “takings”
  • Appealing a condemnation decision
  • Understanding regulatory “takings” and inverse condemnation

   

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Credits

Engineers
6.5 PDHs

Land Surveyors
6.5 PDHs

Attorneys
6.5 CLE Hours

 

Continuing Education Credit Information

This webinar is open to the public and is designed to qualify for 6.5 PDHs for professional engineers and land surveyors in Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania State Registration Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists does not provide preapproval for any continuing professional competency activities, courses or providers.

HalfMoon Education is an approved CLE provider with the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Continuing Legal Education Board (No. 1613); this webinar offers 6.5 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

Wendy Lathrop, PLS, CFM, CFS

President and Owner of Cadastral Consulting, LLC in Pennsylvania

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.

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