Description
Gain a better understanding of land rights access issues for rightsofway or easements held by public or private entities.Gain a better understanding of land rights access issues for rightsofway or easements held by public or private entities. Learn about different types of easements and how these various easements get created. You will also learn about the use of easements, including, but not limited to, maintenance and repair obligations, the scope of use, and potential liability arising out of the use of easements. Lastly, you will learn how easements are terminated and review reallife case examples of boundary and easement disputes and what legal remedies are available to address concerns related to these types of disputes.
Date: 2021-11-22 Start Time: End Time:
Learning Objectives
Types of Easements
• Definition and Nature of an Easement
• Appurtenant Easements
• Easement in Gross
• Easements for Light, Air, or View
• Private Easements vs. Public Easements
• Riparian Rights
Formation of Easement Rights
• Express Grant or Reservation
• Public Utility Easements
• Rights-of-Way
• Road Easement
• Implied Grant or Reservation
• Easements by Necessity
• Prescriptive Easements
• Recorded Covenant
• Dedication
• Condemnation
• Equitable Easements
• Irrevocable Licenses
Use of the Dominant Estate
• Location of Easements
• Scope of Use
• Servient Tenement Rights
• Maintenance and Repair Obligations
• Dominant Tenement
• Servient Tenement
Duty and Liability Regarding Encroachments on Dominant or Servient Estate
• Trespass and Nuisance
• Irrevocable Licenses
• Equitable Easements
• Ejectment
Liability for Injuries to Persons Within
• Duty to Third Parties
• Private Easement in a Public Street
Termination of Easements
• Release
• Merger
• Destruction of Servient Tenement
• Prescription and/or Adverse Possession
• Overburdening an Easement
• Abandonment
• Nonuse
• Foreclosure
Legal Remedies
• Quiet Title
• Ejectment
• Declaratory Relief
• Trespass or Nuisance
• Injunctive Relief
Case Studies/Examples
• Gomez v. Coronado • Dispute Regarding Use of Driveway
• Shoen v. Zacarias • Dispute Regarding Physical Encroachments
• Yadkarim v. Ninety Seven 14 Holcomb LLC – Dispute Regarding Use of Side Yard and Fence Encroachment
• Arterberry v. Russell • Dispute Regarding Physical Encroachments
• 5170 W. Adams v. Garcia, et al. • Dispute Regarding Access Easement
CLE (Please check the Detailed Credit Information page for states that have already been approved) ,Additional credit may be available upon request. Contact Lorman at 866-352-9540 for further information.
Stephanie Goldstein-Schorr Law
