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Course Information
  • smart_display Format

    On-Demand

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

    Intermediate

  • work Practice Area

    Real Property - Transactions

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Wednesday, February 12, 2025

  • schedule Time

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  • timer Program Length

    90 minutes

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.

$347.00
CLE
ALL

This CLE course will closely examine the 2021 ALTA/NSPS Standards and examine noteworthy recent developments related to these standards. The panel will also discuss how title insurers typically address various survey matters in title policies and the utility of survey endorsements.

Faculty

Gary R. Kent
Owner
Meridian Land Consulting, LLC

Mr. Kent is a past-president of both ACSM and the Indiana Society of Professional Land Surveyors. He has a BS degree in Land Surveying from Purdue University and is registered to practice surveying in Indiana and Michigan. He has been chair of the joint ALTA/NSPS committee responsible for the ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey standards since 1995. Schneider Geomatics is a consulting firm based in Indianapolis providing surveying, consulting engineering, and utility permitting/licensing services for railroad crossings.  

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Mary A. Slade
Lead Counsel
Metropolitan Title of Indiana, LLC

Ms. Slade is the 2018-2019 Real Estate Committee Chair and 2017-2018 Chair of the Indiana State Bar Association's Probate Trust and Real Property Section of the Indiana State Bar Association. She has served as co-editor of that Sections newsletter as well as a co-editor of the Indiana Land Title Association Handbook. Her real estate career has also included private practice as a real estate transaction and litigation attorney and as regional underwriting and claims counsel and state underwriting counsel for two other national title underwriters for 16 states and the District of Columbia.

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Description

Land surveys are primary due diligence tools in real estate transactions or development deals. They depict location, boundary, and topography, with a description of improvements, encumbrances, and other observations.

The most recent survey standards are the 2021 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys (the Standards). Practitioners must understand these Standards (including Table A) to ensure surveys are correctly prepared.

Surveys can reveal significant title matters, which may appear as exceptions to title coverage. Counsel must address survey issues with the title company (and purchasers and lenders) and know which survey or other endorsements can resolve survey matters.

Listen as our authoritative panel reviews the most recent ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey Standards, emphasizing reviewing surveys from the perspective of title insurers. The panel will also offer best practices for practitioners.

Outline

  1. Introduction
  2. 2021 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys
  3. Practitioner takeaways

Benefits

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • What does a land survey accomplish, and when should it be conducted?
  • What documentation is to be provided to the surveyor under the Standards, and what is the surveyor's responsibility if those documents are not forthcoming?
  • How do the Standards address rights of way and easements?