How Do You Find Dead Parents Texas Mineral Rights?
I own some inherited mineral rights in Texas. It’s a complicated thing to manage; the specific things I own are items like “.0242361 royalty interest in 107.63 acre Tract B2-3 Marshall Field Unit, Survey, A-354”. About 50 of them, collected by a great-grandparent and split and distributed many times. I was given an inventory as part of a bunch of estate paperwork, but honestly the main way I hear about what I own is when an oil production company tries to track me down to sign a lease agreement. That, or a property tax bill arrives. If it’s literally been decades and you’ve never seen a property tax bill or royalty payment, you’ll have a hard time finding them. You may not even own them anymore if they were repossessed because of non-payment of property taxes. The place to start is indeed the county property records, and realistically you need to be prepared to spend hours digging through very old files. Alternately you could hire someone to do the research for you. The expert you are
