# Lawyer recommendations

**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lawyer-recommendations/86416
**Category:** General Mineral Rights Discussion
**Created:** [March 9, 2026, 10:06pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lawyer-recommendations/86416 "2026-03-09T22:06:42Z")
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### Author: ![Katcan](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Katcan](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Katcan)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2026, 10:06pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lawyer-recommendations/86416/1 "2026-03-09T22:06:42Z")

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Need recommendations for a lawyer to help resolve issues related to inherited mineral rights and life estate. Minerals are in Reeves County, Texas and I am in Michigan. Owners lived and died in Michigan. Thank you.

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### Author: ![TennisDaze](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@TennisDaze](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/TennisDaze)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2026, 1:09am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lawyer-recommendations/86416/2 "2026-03-10T01:09:07Z")

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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.

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### Author: ![Katcan](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Katcan](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Katcan)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2026, 10:59am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lawyer-recommendations/86416/3 "2026-03-10T10:59:24Z")

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Thank you.

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### Author: ![SooCitySue](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/user_avatar/www.mineralrightsforum.com/soocitysue/32/19319_2.png) [@SooCitySue](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/SooCitySue)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2026, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lawyer-recommendations/86416/4 "2026-03-14T15:13:31Z")

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How do we find gas & oil lawyers when we live in another state? The state bar association? And could a paralegal do most of the work, instead of a lawyer?

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### Author: ![tim\_dowd](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/user_avatar/www.mineralrightsforum.com/tim_dowd/32/23580_2.png) [@tim\_dowd](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/tim_dowd)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2026, 4:08pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lawyer-recommendations/86416/5 "2026-03-14T16:08:27Z")

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There are five Texas attorneys listed in the Directory above. I don’t know all of them, but the ones I do know are very competent. Can a paralegal do the work instead of an attorney? Maybe, but that’s the lawyer’s call. You don’t necessarily call a dental hygienist to do dental work instead of the dentist. The dentist hands off what the hygienist can do vs. what he/she does.

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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: [June 7, 2026, 10:07pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lawyer-recommendations/86416/6 "2026-06-07T22:07:19Z")

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