{"id":276,"date":"2022-07-30T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T18:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/?p=276"},"modified":"2022-07-30T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T18:03:08","slug":"how-to-misdraft-an-easement-agreement-error-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/how-to-misdraft-an-easement-agreement-error-six\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Misdraft an Easement Agreement:  Error Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/products\/inv\/book\/415051106\/\">book<\/a> on how to draft easement agreements, giving practical advice to lawyers. I had the most fun with the next-to-last chapter, which I called &#8220;Ten Ways to Misdraft Your Easement Agreement,&#8221; where I described ten ways for drafters to mess up their agreements. The sixth error I wrote about is to not set standards for roads and utilities. If you are granting an easement to allow your neighbor to build a driveway and connect utilities through your property, describe how much driveway you&#8217;re allowing. Even if the easement area will be 30 feet wide, you may not expect your neighbor to build a driveway that looks like a public street, with curbs and a sidewalk. You can and should say something like &#8220;Within the Easement Area, Grantee may construct a paved driveway up to X feet wide&#8221; so that you&#8217;re allowing a driveway, not a highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I wrote a book on how to draft easement agreements, giving practical advice to lawyers. I had the most fun with the next-to-last chapter, which I called &#8220;Ten Ways to Misdraft Your Easement Agreement,&#8221; where I described ten ways for drafters to mess up their agreements. The sixth error I wrote about is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dean-alterman","category-easements","category-legal-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}