About a year ago I signed a lease with a smaller landman for our mineral rights out in Roosevelt County, Montana Township 28N Range 57E area Section 23 and 26, he then paid my cousin and I for the lease bonus. September came and the landman we signed with said that we should be seeing royalty payments in a few months (November/December).
December came and We had not seen anything yet, and about half way through December my dad found a letter from continental trying to contact my grandma or the people running her estate, which is weird because they never contacted him in the first place but all of the sudden found his new address that we had just moved him to a few months prior, when the landman we had signed with was getting invoices from continental for our “share” of the well.
I contacted Division Orders dept with continental, gave them some paperwork to prove who I was/that my grandma had passed and all they give me is it will be 2-3 months longer before we get paid and that they will contact me via email if they have any questions, and really havent answered any of my questions about how any of this happened or if our contract is being honored or not. The landman we signed with hasnt been super helpful but he also said that because its in my grandma’s/my cousin and I’s name there isnt much he can do. Should I be contacting the lawyer who helped me draft these papers or anything or is this something that happens from time to time?
