{"id":367,"date":"2024-08-08T07:40:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2024-08-08T07:40:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:40:38","slug":"erica-menze-and-dean-alterman-will-teach-how-to-draft-easements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/erica-menze-and-dean-alterman-will-teach-how-to-draft-easements\/","title":{"rendered":"Erica Menze and Dean Alterman will teach how to draft easements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"break-words\n          tvm-parent-container\"><span dir=\"ltr\">Tomorrow Dean Alterman and Erica Menze will present a session on negotiating and drafting easement agreements at the annual conference of the Real Estate and Land Use Section of the Oregon State Bar. Here&#8217;s a sneak peek at one of our practice pointers: the passive voice is to be avoided. If you want to impose an obligation on a party, don&#8217;t say &#8220;the obligation shall be done&#8221;; say &#8220;Party X must perform the obligation.&#8221; For example, if you want the grantee to maintain a driveway, don&#8217;t say &#8220;the driveway will be maintained&#8221;; say &#8220;Grantee will maintain the driveway . . . &#8221; and then add the specifics, such as &#8221; . . . as a 12-foot wide all-weather gravel road, passable by cars and light trucks.&#8221; Another pointer: provide a legal description not just for the grantor&#8217;s tract and the grantee&#8217;s tract, but also for the easement area. Don&#8217;t encumber the grantor&#8217;s entire tract with the easement if the accessway will use only a small part of it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow Dean Alterman and Erica Menze will present a session on negotiating and drafting easement agreements at the annual conference of the Real Estate and Land Use Section of the Oregon State Bar. Here&#8217;s a sneak peek at one of our practice pointers: the passive voice is to be avoided. If you want to impose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dean-alterman","category-easements","category-erica-menze","category-real-estate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4.4.5-Pass-Through.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","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=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alterman.law\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}