After more than twenty-five years as a professional in a Fortune 100 Company, B. Smith Hearn, a real estate developer, found inspired purpose in returning to her hometown to renovate a historically significant apartment property. She was shocked to discover that her property rights were threatened by unsubstantiated easement claims. She researched U.S. laws and easement practices that jeopardize the rights of property owners everywhere in the U.S. Using straight talk, Easements demystifies complex concepts for a broad range of reader ages and experiences, and its conversational approach...

Can civil discourse strive in American communities, homes, politics, the workplace, etc. when any criterion, for the successful fulfillment, of any law prescribes the application of hostile trespasses by private citizens upon others? Can "say no to bullying campaigns" for American children succeed while their parents and other role models exercise hostile prescription and adverse possession to take interests in the real property of another? Have these laws, in existence for over one hundred and fifty years, proven themselves too toxic to sustain the concept of the American Dream? After more...

An abridged edition of "Easements"

This story is for everyone who owns or aspires to own property anywhere in the United States.Every day, in every state of America, by law, any private citizen can exercise prescription and adverse possession to take the private property of another. Additionally, government entities exercise a different process, condemnation by right of eminent domain, to acquire property. Unlike peaceful acquisitions, the currency for prescription and adverse possession is continuous, open, and notorious hostility. Betty shares her personal story about easement claims, prescription, and adverse possession....