Our mother passed away and left us her inherited Mineral Interest in several Oklahoma counties. We are living out of state and so was she. She has a Trust and Will. Some of her Deeds were transferred to her Trust but others were not. We are unsure about how to approach this. There are royalties coming in but we are unable to deposit checks unless they are written to the name of the Trust and not all of them are. We would like to transfer all known ownership/deeds, go on record as the beneficiaries and track down all other interest to get it properly recorded in our names. She was not able to complete this task but has piles of paperwork. We need to track the transfer of title on several dating back to our grandfather. Our goal is to divide the interest between my sibling and me and place it into our individual Family Trust for our kids. and dissolve the Trust. We have tried using Proof of Death & Heirship but we feel there is a cleaner way to do this having a Trust Document. Some of the operators want a Final Decree and others just the Death & Heirship filed in the county to pay royalties to us but the bigger picture is being notified down the road. We want all of this to be clean and filed correctly. Any advise would be very much appreciated. Thank you!
Sorry for the loss of your mother. The properties transferred into the trust already should be fairly straightforward. For properties not retitled into the trust the probate would be the cleanest route. Her estate may be eligible for a summary probate which can usually be completed remotely and fairly quickly.
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