# How to handle inherited mineral rights in WY
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/how-to-handle-inherited-mineral-rights-in-wy/40521
**Category:** Ownership and Title
**Created:** [January 22, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/how-to-handle-inherited-mineral-rights-in-wy/40521 "2019-01-22T21:02:23Z")
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### Author:  [@juliegordon](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/juliegordon)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2019, 9:02pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/how-to-handle-inherited-mineral-rights-in-wy/40521/1 "2019-01-22T21:02:23Z")
Hi everyone. I am such a novice to this. I live in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and apparently my grandmother owned mineral rights to many acres in Goshen County, Wyoming. Her sons have also passed, so that leaves me and my two cousins as heirs. The mineral rights were not mentioned in her will or in her trust. I am not sure if she forgot about them or not. We did find in her paperwork an amendment to a lease with a gas/oil company created in 2010, so I know that she has leased in the past. Can someone point me in the right direction? I think I have some right to the mineral rights with my cousins. How do I find out for sure? How do I get title transferred into our names, the heirs? How do I know if there is a current lease and/or any royalties? Thank you so much for your time to answer my questions and to help me. Again, I am a complete novice to this idea.
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### Author:  [@DRontal](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/DRontal)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 1:21pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/how-to-handle-inherited-mineral-rights-in-wy/40521/2 "2019-01-23T13:21:04Z")
You will likely need to get the estate probated and ultimately deeded from the estate to you and your cousins. You will likely need a lawyer to help out with this. We work closely with Kris Koski at Long Reimer and found him to be exceptionally helpful in these types of instances. His contact information is below:
[https://lrw-law.com/?attorney=kris-c-koski](https://lrw-law.com/?attorney=kris-c-koski)
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### Author:  [@RobertF](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/RobertF)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/how-to-handle-inherited-mineral-rights-in-wy/40521/3 "2019-01-23T13:58:15Z")
I hope everything goes well with your search. There was a lot of leasing in Goshen back around 2010, but nothing since until the last 6 months or so. See this thread for the current activity.
> [@November Government Leases for Platte and Goshen County - Who is leasing?](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/november-government-leases-for-platte-and-goshen-county-who-is-leasing/39896/2):
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> I just found this link from the lease results that shows the winners of the auctions. November 2018 Auctions July 2018 Auctions It looks like Drake Land Services and Baseline minerals both won auctions in November and Baseline won the cheaper auctions back in July. [http://www.baselineminerals.com/](http://www.baselineminerals.com/)[http://www.drakelandllc.com/](http://www.drakelandllc.com/) It would be interesting to know who their clients are.
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### Author:  [@MRFAdmin\_SV](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/MRFAdmin_SV)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/how-to-handle-inherited-mineral-rights-in-wy/40521/4 "2025-01-11T19:30:55Z")