NCSS is partnering with the SW Piedmont Chapter to present this seminar.

Registration begins at 7:30 am and class concludes at 5:00 pm.  Breakfast and lunch are included.

Topic: Adverse Possession and Acquiescence

This session begins with relevant historical background and moves on to current state-specific definitions for the elements of adverse possession. Specific topics include: the timeline of title transfer; tacking; claims against or by the state; conflicting adverse claims; rules for interruption of a claim; champerty; effect of a survey on a prescriptive claim.

The seminar also considers the lost grant theory and its influence on current rules for adverse claims of fee and prescriptive easement law. The first session will be followed by a discussion of the origins of acquiescence, its many definitions, and the relationship between acquiescence and  other unwritten rights. The primary focus of the class will be on North Carolina, but examples are included from adjoining states for contrast and comparison.

Instructor: 

Kristopher M. Kline, president of 2Point, Inc., became licensed in North Carolina in1991 and is a 1999 graduate of the North Carolina Society of Surveyors (NCSS) Institute. Kris served for 3 years as Chairman of the NCSS Education Committee. His present business focuses exclusively on boundary and easement disputes.

In 2003, Kris began offering continuing education courses in North Carolina on legal aspects of retracement. Since 2010, his teaching career has expanded to include conferences and seminars nationwide. Kris has presented several keynote addresses for state conventions. In 2020, Kris and his wife, Robyn, assumed administration of Surveyors Educational Seminars, a continuing education program originally developed by Dr. Ben Buckner, and later operated by Donald A. Wilson and his wife Christine.

Kris has published five books, with another in its final stages. Most recently, Kline is the author of the second edition of the Washington State Common Law of Surveys and Property Boundaries, available from the Land Surveyors Association of Washington (LSAW.) He is the author of over 80 technical articles.  Written for a national audience and generally focused on various legal aspects of boundary retracement, many of these are now available on his blog at www.2point.net.