Kansas: The Newspaper Notice Trap and Your Sleeping Minerals
How the Kansas Mineral Lapse Act lets surface owners reclaim your dormant mineral rights using a 60-day clock and a small-town classified ad.
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The Michigan Vanishing Act: How Your Family's Dormant Mineral Rights Can Disappear in 20 Years
Michigan's dormant mineral law means your family's severed oil and gas rights can simply evaporate through silence. Here is how the 20-year trap works.
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The Lease You Never Got to Negotiate
How the executive right holder in Texas can sign the mineral lease, keep the bonus, and drag you along for the ride.
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“You Can’t Buy the Minerals Here” — The Osage Headright Trap That Turns ‘Mineral Ownership’ Into a Federal Trust Payment
In Osage County, you don't own minerals. You own a headright. Here is what that means for your paperwork, your payments, and your family.
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“The 33% Coup + the 300% Penalty” — Mississippi’s Forced-Integration Math That Can Hijack Your Economics
How Mississippi's quirky 33% consent rule and brutal 300% nonconsent penalties turn passive mineral ownership into an active administrative nightmare.
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The Pennsylvania Underground Landlord: When Gas Gets Stored Under Your Farm
What happens when your Pennsylvania land sits over a natural gas storage field? Understand FERC certificates, buffer zones, and your options.
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The 20-Year Eraser: How Indiana’s Mineral Lapse Act Takes Your Land
Unused mineral rights in Indiana can automatically revert to the surface owner after 20 years. Learn how the Lapse Act works and how to protect your asset.
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The 20-Year Fuse: How Michigan Quietly Extinguishes Severed Mineral Rights
Michigan's Dormant Minerals Act will wipe out your family's severed oil and gas rights after 20 years of silence. Here is how to stop it.
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The “75% Coup”: How Your Cousins Can Lease the Minerals Without You in West Virginia
In West Virginia, if 75% of your co-owners sign a lease, the operator can drill even if you say no. Here is how the law works and what it means for your leverage.
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The “Integration Order” You Never Read: Arkansas’ Quiet Forced-Pooling Machine
In Arkansas, silence is an election. How ignoring an AOGC integration order can lock your minerals into a deal you never signed.
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Illinois’ “Missing Owner” Trap: How Your Family’s Minerals Can Get Leased (or Taken) If You’re Not Visible
In Illinois, if you don't show up in the county records, the law assumes you don't exist. Here is how trustees and surface owners can legally take control of your asset.
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The Family vs. The Operator: Why Sentiment Can Freeze Your Royalty Check
When heirs treat minerals like heirlooms but operators need legal certainty, checks stop coming. Here is how to navigate the paperwork wars.
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