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Indiana has one of the harshest dormant mineral laws in the country. If you do nothing for 20 years, your property rights vanish. Here is how it works.
New York banned fracking, stranding billions in Marcellus shale gas. Now, Southern Tier mineral owners are fighting back with a constitutional lawsuit.
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.
Refusing a bad oil and gas lease in Ohio doesn't protect your minerals. It just gives the state the power to force you into a drilling unit on their terms.
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.
Refusing an oil and gas lease might feel like leverage. In Mississippi, it just hands the operator the right to take your oil and charge you a penalty.
How Colorado's SB 19-181 gave towns the power to ban drilling, leaving mineral owners with stranded assets and sparking fierce legal battles.
Oklahoma law requires operators to pay 12% interest on late royalties. Here is why you aren't getting it, and the exact steps to claim your money.
How the PA Supreme Court's Briggs decision made holding out a dangerous game for unleased mineral owners.
Your lease says 'no deductions,' but your royalty check is still shrinking. Here is the accounting trick operators use to bypass your lease protections.
How SWN, Antero, and others used the Market Enhancement Clause to bypass West Virginia law and quietly deduct 30% from your royalty checks.
Oklahoma’s multi-unit horizontal wells have a hidden math problem. Find out how unperforated pipe dilutes your family's royalty checks.