Article on Mineral Interests and Estate Administration

W. Cameron McCulloch (seniorpartner, MacIntyre McCulloch Stanfield & Young) and Thuy Thai (associate,MacIntyre McCulloch Stanfield & Young) recently published an articleentitled, Black Gold: Everything You Needto Know About Probating Estates in Texas When Mineral Interests Are Involved,National Association of Division Order Analysts (April/May/June 2013).  

This article suggests ways todeal with and avoid oil and gas transfer issues that arise during estateadministration.  Specifically, thisarticle focuses on how to handle the tricky nature of life estates in oil andgas interests as well as surface interests. This article also provides the correcttransfer procedure for royalties and discusses the proper methods fortransferring out-of-state oil and gas interests.

Please click here to find outexactly how to probate Texas estates when mineral interests are involved.