Even though the state Department of Environmental Conservation holds about 900,000 acres in conservation easements across the state, there is currently no legal procedure for modifying or ...

A farmland preservation trust law that let participating landowners carve out two acres on which to build a home did not give the owners the right to immediately sell the house to someone else, the ...

The Zabedee Wetland in Thetford, preserved by the Upper Valley Land Trust. Photo by Dirk Van Susteren The conservation community is still reeling from the implications of a legislative proposal that ...

Senator John Hoeven issued the following statement in response to the Army Corps of Engineers’ announcement that the Obama administration will refuse to grant an easement for the Dakota Access ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The attorney who exploited Colorado’s generous conservation-easement program, leaving it in tatters while revenue officials tagged dozens of his clients and ...

In Notice 2017-10, the IRS has determined that certain conservation easements are now “listed transactions” for purposes of federal tax reporting. “Syndicated” conservation easements are conservation ...

Property rights known as easements may benefit or burden a business. Most easements give the easement holder the legal right to use real property owned by another party for a limited purpose. A ...

An easement agreement allowing for the construction of the Evergreen Walk commercial development in South Windsor has been ruled invalid by a Hartford Superior Court judge. Wayne C. Gerlt, a resident ...

The idea that you can use a simple rule of thumb to value a facade easement has now been thoroughly put to rest. That is my reading of the Second Circuit's second decision in the case of Huda ...