# Don't forget minerals when funding your trust, like Bing Crosby did

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**Created:** [February 11, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/dont-forget-minerals-when-funding-your-trust-like-bing-crosby-did/64942 "2022-02-11T17:13:53Z")
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### Author: ![Richard\_Winblad](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/user_avatar/www.mineralrightsforum.com/richard_winblad/32/11511_2.png) [@Richard\_Winblad](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Richard_Winblad)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/dont-forget-minerals-when-funding-your-trust-like-bing-crosby-did/64942/1 "2022-02-11T17:13:54Z")

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Bing Crosby died in 1977, he had a Trust. As most of us know a trust is designed to avoid probate. But there was a problem with Bing’s trust, his minerals were left out. Almost 40 years later Bing’s grandson had to probate the estate in Oklahoma to get the minerals into the trust. I experience many occasions when a client’s parent had a perfectly good trust, but minerals were left out. The result is often a probate that could have been avoided. A deed from the parent to the trust or trustee could have avoided this problem. If you have a trust, you want to make sure that it was funded with a recorded deed.

A trust works kind of like a wagon. Things put in the wagon avoid probate. Things left out may require probate.

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### Author: ![Samxen](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@Samxen](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Samxen)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/dont-forget-minerals-when-funding-your-trust-like-bing-crosby-did/64942/2 "2022-02-11T18:50:30Z")

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I have some minerals that remained in my trust and never went directly to me. How do I find those?

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### Author: ![Richard\_Winblad](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/user_avatar/www.mineralrightsforum.com/richard_winblad/32/11511_2.png) [@Richard\_Winblad](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Richard_Winblad)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2022, 12:33am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/dont-forget-minerals-when-funding-your-trust-like-bing-crosby-did/64942/3 "2022-02-16T00:33:32Z")

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You should start with the trust, also land records where the minerals are located. There should be a legal description that you can find. Good luck.

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### Author: ![system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/uploads/db5755/original/3X/6/c/6c7c56608c843272ad6e3662ce9562a5956f173e.png) [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/dont-forget-minerals-when-funding-your-trust-like-bing-crosby-did/64942/4 "2022-05-12T17:13:59Z")

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