Need recommendations for a lawyer to help resolve issues related to inherited mineral rights and life estate. Minerals are in Reeves county TX and I am in Michigan. Owners lived and died in Michigan. Thank you
The kind of lawyer and state depends on the issues being resolved. If it is an estate issue as to the terms of the life estate and residual beneficiary, you need to consult an estate attorney, perhaps the one who handled the Michigan probate or the trust documents. A Texas oil and gas attorney can help you with what is necessary to establish title in the deed records. Then you can send the title records to the oil company which has been paying royalties to the life estate tenant.