Practitioner’s Guide to Conservation Easements

Shea B. Airey (attorney, South Carolina) recently published an article entitled Conservation Easements in Private Practice, 44 Real Prop. Trust & Estate L.J. 745 (2010). 

The editor’s synopsis of the article is below: 

This article presents an overview of conservation easements that is designed to help practitioners better incorporate the tool into practice in order to reap the myriad benefits that state and federal law authorize.  By providing an account of the development of conservation easements, an outline of current available legal benefits, and examples of hypothetical treatment in various states, the Author provides practitioner with that which is necessary to put the conservation easement to use for their clients.