About a month ago, EQT Production Company contacted me with a lease agreement for land that was in my great uncle's name, in Springhill Township Green county Pennsylvania. 52.48 acres.
They have confused the family lines and have nieces and nephews listed on this lease agreeement as well as step children. But not my uncles daughter.
They are not listening to me about this people mix up. I have been doing the family genealogy for 20 years.
What do I do? They want to sign the lease with me.....and not the rightful heir?
This was their reply to my question about a title search: "We paid thousands of dollars for the title work, we’re not interested in just giving it away. "
Can they use the land without all the lease papers being signed? So it doesn’t matter what I do about the lease?
Thank you so much.
It is my understanding that it would go by your great uncle’s will and flow down from there. If there wasn’t a will and his spouse and child(ren) survived then 50% would go to the spouse and 50% the child(ren) would split. If there wasn’t a will and no living spouse then the children would split. If no spouse or children then the siblings would split (I don’t know who it would go to if the parents were alive as well). If he had 6 siblings and 1 sibling had passed before him the spouse or children of the deceased sibling would split that person’s portion. If the deceased sibling had no spouse/children that portion would be split between the siblings equally. It can get very convoluted and depends on if there is a will or not.
