# Drilling Without a Lease!
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/drilling-without-a-lease/5838
**Category:** Law & Legal
**Created:** [December 6, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/drilling-without-a-lease/5838 "2015-12-06T02:19:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Linton\_Tomlin](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Linton_Tomlin)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/drilling-without-a-lease/5838/21 "2015-12-07T00:41:34Z")
How are you getting checks with no paperwork? Your Dad’s estate must have been probated and the minerals distributed to you and your siblings for YOU to be getting checks, right?
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### Author:  [@Linton\_Tomlin](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Linton_Tomlin)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2015, 12:46am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/drilling-without-a-lease/5838/22 "2015-12-07T00:46:44Z")
Usually mineral interests are listed in the inventory to the will, if there is a will.
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### Author:  [@Debbie\_Belcastro](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Debbie_Belcastro)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/drilling-without-a-lease/5838/23 "2015-12-07T00:48:26Z")
There is paperwork but no signed lease. & they didn’t pay us to drill on the land. Most leases are for 3-5 years. We don’t have that paperwork!
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### Author:  [@Debbie\_Belcastro](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Debbie_Belcastro)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/drilling-without-a-lease/5838/24 "2015-12-07T00:52:14Z")
Yes he had a will & it went through probate in Montana. Do you have a signed lease for yours?
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### Author:  [@Linton\_Tomlin](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Linton_Tomlin)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2015, 12:52am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/drilling-without-a-lease/5838/25 "2015-12-07T00:52:19Z")
You are not being dumb. The only way to learn is to read and ask questions. And it’s very complicated. This is a great place to start, though. Go read all the blogs and forums and keep asking questions, you have to start somewhere. You’ve started off on the right foot! Linton
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### Author:  [@Debbie\_Belcastro](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Debbie_Belcastro)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/drilling-without-a-lease/5838/26 "2015-12-07T00:54:08Z")
Thank you. Debbie
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### Author:  [@Linton\_Tomlin](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Linton_Tomlin)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/drilling-without-a-lease/5838/27 "2015-12-07T00:54:41Z")
Some I have leases for, some I do not. Those I inherited that have been producing for decades, I’ve never even seen the lease.
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### Author:  [@Linton\_Tomlin](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Linton_Tomlin)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/drilling-without-a-lease/5838/28 "2015-12-07T00:58:12Z")
And the companies change all the time. Your Dad may have gotten a check from X on that well, then when it got to you, between checks, Y bought X out so you get a check from Y, although your Dad never did.
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### Author:  [@Linton\_Tomlin](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Linton_Tomlin)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2015, 12:59am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/drilling-without-a-lease/5838/29 "2015-12-07T00:59:33Z")
You’re welcome. Not sure if I helped you or just confused you more! Good luck. Linton
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### Author:  [@Debbie\_Belcastro](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Debbie_Belcastro)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2015, 1:03am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/drilling-without-a-lease/5838/30 "2015-12-07T01:03:49Z")
The thing about it is, I saw my Dad a lot & saw all his leases & all of his checks! Ok thanks. No more confused than I was. Lol
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### Author:  [@Buddy\_Cotten](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Buddy_Cotten)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2015, 6:09am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/drilling-without-a-lease/5838/31 "2015-12-10T06:09:01Z")
Dear Ms. Belcasto,
In Montana, there is forced pooling. Your lands could have been forced pooled.
You could satisfy yourself by running title in the right County to see if a lease pops up and if not, check the commission dockets to see if you were pooled.
Best,
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### Author:  [@Debbie\_Belcastro](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Debbie_Belcastro)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/drilling-without-a-lease/5838/32 "2015-12-15T19:55:54Z")
Thank you Mr. Cotten
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### Author:  [@Clyde\_W\_Etchason](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Clyde_W_Etchason)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/drilling-without-a-lease/5838/33 "2017-08-09T15:47:49Z")
I did the very same thing. AN ABSTRACT COMPANY DID A MINERAL SEARCH AND GAVE ME BOGUS INFORMATION.
YOU CAN TAKE EVERYTHING… IN ILLINOIS. I KNOW THEY DID IT TO ME.
Please don’t do that contact them and discuss the issue. Work out a deal with them. We lost 1 million dollars and the entire lease. We had two producing wells on the ground. We lost everything.
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### Author:  [@Clyde\_W\_Etchason](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Clyde_W_Etchason)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/drilling-without-a-lease/5838/34 "2017-08-09T16:35:32Z")
You need an oil and gas attorney who specializes in abstracts. I would hire a landman who is an attorney to check out the deed and trace this to you. Find out where you stand and what your rights are. You will spend some money but you should have peace of mind with it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 11:24pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/drilling-without-a-lease/5838/35 "2018-08-14T23:24:58Z")
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