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Here is a list of just those seminars that will be offered by The Fund in the very near future. If you see one or more that interests you, click on the box to the left of it, then click on "Continue".
For information about seminars further in the future or other seminars, contact the Education Registrar at (888) 407-7775.

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21st Century Title Examination Workshop

Claims Avoidance and Defensive Legal Practice

Litigation Toolbox: First Rate Mortgage Foreclosures

Litigation Toolbox: Get Out! Residential & Commercial Evictions

Probate and the Transactional Attorney

RESPA Reform School is Back in Session: The New HUD-1

Stay Inside the Lines - Surveys & Legal Descriptions

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21st Century Title Examination Workshop

This basic seminar is one of the Legal Education Department’s Transactional Foundations series of seminars. It is geared for the novice title examiner who has had little-to-no formal training in the mechanics and principles of title examination. Also, it may be useful for those persons who have not examined title in many years, and are seeking to refresh their title examination skills. No title searching is covered in this seminar; the seminar assumes that the examiner has the results of an appropriate title search for examination. The seminar steps the examiner through the mechanics and principles of basic title examination culminating in the preparation of a title insurance commitment. The seminar consists of a formal presentation of the principles, followed by a hands-on exercise in which a title search is examined, a title chain is developed, and a title insurance commitment is prepared. Attendees will learn about title examination maxims & principles, steps of title examination, how to create a title chain, examining deeds and mortgages, the Marketable Record Title Act, sources of Base Title, and translating title examination results into requirements or exceptions in a Fund Commitment. There is a seminar book that includes a comprehensive outline of the topics along with more than 200 pages of supplementary materials. Although the seminar is 3 hours in length and is approved for CLE from The Florida Bar, and continuing education by NALA, and DFS, no ethics hours are available as part of the seminar. Florida Bar Accreditation: 3.50 CLER 0.50 Ethics
CLER:3.50
Ethics Credits:0.50

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Claims Avoidance and Defensive Legal Practice

As Benjamin Franklin famously quipped, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Whether it’s a claim on a title policy you prepared or against your firm, most claims are preventable. To avoid a case of the “if only’s,” this seminar provides the ounce of proactive prevention for the covered topics. Don’t learn the hard way that “Being right is important; having to prove it is expensive!” Preventing claims requires appreciation for and avoidance of the issues which give rise to them in the first place. This seminar will give you the tools to do so, based on Fund claims experience. The seminar includes overviews of the myriad ways attorneys and title agents get into trouble professionally and the many simple, practical steps that can be taken to minimize risks. Included in this very practical seminar are “Cases From The Field Of Play” and recommendations to follow to reduce your chances of being involved as the issuing agent in a title claim. The Florida Bar has approved 3.5 hours of Ethics credit for this valuable and unique seminar. Florida Bar Accreditation: 3.50 CLER 3.50 Ethics 2.50 Certification: Civil Trial
CLER:3.50
Ethics Credits:3.50

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Litigation Toolbox: First Rate Mortgage Foreclosures

This seminar provides a nuts and bolts overview of prosecuting and defending residential and commercial mortgage foreclosures from pre-foreclosure file intake requirements through the post trial phase. An overview of the substantive law of negotiable instruments, mortgages, and agreements for deed is presented. Attorney and law firm compliance with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is covered. Common bankruptcy issues are dealt with as are frequently encountered homeowners’ and condominium associations’ problems. Recent prosecution or defense tactics and trends, statutes and cases involving mortgage foreclosures are reviewed. Title examination and insurance requirements involving foreclosed real property or property entering foreclosure are also covered. Florida Bar Accreditation: 3.50 CLER 0.50 Ethics 3.50 Certification: Real Estate
CLER:3.50
Ethics Credits:0.50

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Litigation Toolbox: Get Out! Residential & Commercial Evictions

Transactional real estate attorneys are obligated to be knowledgeable about the residential and commercial eviction process as well as landlord-tenant law generally. The leases we draft must be carefully crafted based on this knowledge. The advice we give our clients during lease negotiations must be based on this knowledge. Our clients often seek advice when they are having problems with a tenant or when they are a “bad” tenant themselves. We must temper the advice not only by the lease language but by the realities of eviction law and practice, including common law principles that survive to this day. Sometimes, we, shudder the thought, must go to the courthouse to file an eviction rather than record a document. This course provides a nuts and bolts overview of residential and commercial evictions from initial notice requirements through the post trial phase and covers the relevant statutes (including the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act), local rules and latest case law interpreting them along with the title insurance issues that arise in tenant occupied transactions. “No-lien” leases, and evictions involving mobile homes and self storage units are also discussed. Florida Bar Accreditation: 3.50 CLER 0.50 Ethics
CLER:3.50
Ethics Credits:0.50

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Probate and the Transactional Attorney

Transactional attorneys need to know about probate even if they don’t practice in that area, for many reasons. Besides needing to know how to examine a title with probate or a need for probate in the chain, transactional attorneys frequently advise clients on matters that involve probate implications. This probate overview seminar is designed with the real estate practitioner in mind. The advantages and disadvantages of probate are discussed, as well as probate avoidance strategies used in real estate transactions, including an in depth analysis of Lady Bird Deeds, and testamentary provisions in trusts and related constitutional homestead issues. This course surveys the probate of testate and intestate estates from commencement through discharge of the personal representative and closing the estate, together with an analysis of relevant statutes, case law, and selected provisions of the probate rules. Also highlighted are many of the title related problems that commonly arise in probate, such as devise and descent of homestead, foreign probate, and ancillary administration. The course offers many practical solutions, such as “Do’s & Don’ts of Administration of Estates from the Title Examiner’s Perspective” and a host of forms useful to transactional attorneys. Florida Bar Accreditation: 3.50 CLER 0.50 Ethics 2.50 Certification: Wills Trust Estate
CLER:3.50
Ethics Credits:0.50

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RESPA Reform School is Back in Session: The New HUD-1

Same old wine but in new bottles? Hardly. RESPA reforms mandated to go into effect on January 1, 2010 will definitely rock your world. We have called RESPA Reform School back into session for a cram course on all the many, many important changes and their ramifications for real estate attorneys and settlement agents. You can’t just blindly rely on closing software to remain compliant, because these substantive RESPA reforms change much more than just the mechanical aspects of preparing closing documents; the relationships among and between the players in the industry will also change. It will be impossible for a Settlement Agent to properly prepare the new 3-page HUD-1 and to conduct the closing without first having had the final Good Faith Estimate given to the borrower in hand and making sure that it accurately reflects the transaction and its costs. Did you know that some closing costs may have to go into one party’s closing statement column even if the other party has contractually agreed to pay them? Note that a lending institution may elect to require its Settlement Agents to deploy the RESPA reforms sooner than January 1, 2010, so get ready. As one of the Fund’s Transactional Foundations seminars, the material is presented with the novice closing agent and members’ support staff in mind. We will review the preparation of the new HUD-1 settlement statement and the Fund’s “best practices” for handling closing receipts and disbursements. Learn how to explain the new HUD-1 and be better able to answer the questions about RESPA reforms your clients will likely ask. THIS SEMINAR IS FREE OF CHARGE TO FUND MEMBERS AND THEIR STAFF. Florida Bar Accreditation: 3.50 CLER 0.50 Ethics
CLER:3.50
Ethics Credits:0.50

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Stay Inside the Lines - Surveys & Legal Descriptions

This practical, essential skills seminar is one of the Legal Education Department’s Transactional Foundations series of seminars geared for real estate attorneys and their paralegal staff who desire training in reading, interpreting, and understanding surveys and legal descriptions. The seminar addresses the concomitant title insurance issues pertaining to surveys, general and specific survey exceptions, and coverage issues. This seminar will prove valuable to attorneys and paralegals, who conduct real estate transactions, analyze or map legal descriptions, order or read surveys, and make determinations whether a legal description or survey issue renders title unmarketable. Whether the legal description unit of measurement involves a platted lot, a condominium unit, or is metes and bounds, take this course and go the distance. Different types of surveys used in Florida, for example ALTA and ACSM, are compared and contrasted, together with their minimum technical standards. Using real examples (including some from Fund claims files) attendees will develop survey reading skills and learn to translate examination results into title insurance requirements and exceptions. Special emphasis will be placed upon locating, analyzing, identifying, and interpreting survey anomalies -- matters shown on the survey that, if not rectified, must be specifically excepted from coverage or insured against before a transaction closes. Florida Bar Accreditation: 3.50 CLER 0.50 Ethics
CLER:3.50
Ethics Credits:0.50

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