Real Estate Spring Update 2014: Quiet Title, Title Insurance and Other Complexities
March 2014
Real Estate Spring Update 2014: Quiet Title, Title Insurance and Other Complexities
Co-sponsored by the Colorado Bar Association Real Estate Section
Program Highlights:
- Quiet Title Actions: Overview and Purpose; Rule 105
- Quiet Title: Substantive Issues
- Title Commitment and Policy Exceptions (Standard and Otherwise)
- Title Policy Endorsements
- Claims Process Overview from the Title Company's Perspective
- What Happens if the Title Insurance Company Doesn't Pay? Thoughts on First Citizens Bank & Trust Company v. Stewart Title Guaranty Company
- Ethics: A Refresher on Commonly Implicated Rules of Professional Conduct; Thoughts on Gattis v. McNutt
Program Description:
If you practice real estate law, you have to know about title issues, and how to handle those issues if the validity of a title is called into question. Experienced faculty from both the legal profession and title insurance industry provide resources needed to understand not only the nuances of a quiet title action in Colorado, but also the complexities of title insurance backwards and forwards. The program ends with a discussion of two recent Colorado Supreme Court cases that every real estate practitioner should be aware of.
Agenda:
8:30am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:55am
Introduction and Welcome
Moderator: Kristin Decker, Esq., Senior Assistant County Attorney, Douglas County Attorney's Office
9:00am
Quiet Title Actions: Overview and Purpose; Rule 105
- Mechanics: Public Records; Off Record Matters; Investigation; Litigation Guarantee; Legal Description; Default Judgment; The Decree
- Parties; Parties of Record; Parties in Possession; Unknown Parties; Military Issues; Deceased Parties
- Lis Pendens; Introduction; When and Where to Record; Effect; Release; Potential Liability
Presented by Geoffrey Anderson, Esq., Sweetbaum Sands Anderson PC
9:50am
Networking Break
10:00am
Quiet Title Continued: Substantive Issues
- Boundary Disputes; Boundary Fences; Oral Agreements; Remedies
- Access Issues; Public Roads; Private Roads; Grant or Reservation; Prescriptive Easement; Easements by Implication and Estoppel; Private Condemnation; Restrictions on Use; Relocation; Termination
Presented by Geoffrey Anderson, Esq., Sweetbaum Sands Anderson PC
10:50am
- Title Commitment, Its Purpose and the Need to Update Before Closing
- Standard Exceptions
- The Other "Non-standard" Exceptions, Why They are There, How to Get Rid of Them, and What Issues are Involved if They Remain in the Policy
- Gap Coverage Issues
- Mechanic's Lien Coverage Issues
- Basic Components of the Final Title Policy
Presented by Warren "Rip" Robinson, Claims Center Director, Northwest Region
First American Title Insurance Company
11:50am
Lunch on Your Own
1:00pm
Title Policy Endorsements
Presented by Jonathan Buss, Senior Underwriting Counsel, Western Regional Counsel Stewart Legal Services
1:50pm
Claims Process Overview from the Title Company's Perspective
Presented by Raymond J. Abrams, Esq., Vice-President - Claims Counsel | West Region, Fidelity National Title Group
2:50pm
Networking Break
3:00pm
What Happens if the Title Insurance Company Doesn't Pay? Thoughts on First Citizens Bank & Trust Company v. Stewart Title Guaranty Company
Presented by Teryl R. Gorrell, Esq., Gorrell Giles Gollata PC
4:00pm
Ethics - A Refresher on Commonly Implicated Rules of Professional Conduct; Thoughts on Gattis v. McNutt
Presented by Robert Steinmetz, Esq., McConnell Fleischner Houghtaling, LLC
5:00pm
Adjourn
Location Information
CLECI Large Classroom
1900 Grant Street, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80203
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1900 Grant Street, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80203
Registration Fees
| Non Member | $339.00 |
| CBA Member | $299.00 |
| CBA Real Estate Law Section Member | $279.00 |
| Paralegal/Legal Support Staff | $259.00 |
| New Lawyer - CBA Real Estate Law Section Member; in practice <3 years | $259.00 |
| CLEACCESSPASS--ELITE Pass Holder | $0.00 |
- General Credits: 8.00
- Ethics Credits: 1.00
- EDI Credits:
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