Putting Texas Mineral Rights in a Trust: The Gap That Stays Hidden
Your estate planning attorney did everything right. The trust was drafted, signed, and funded. Your home went into it. Bank accounts followed. You walked away believing your Texas mineral rights were handled too. They almost certainly were not. A trust does not pull minerals inside just because your plan names it owner. Texas minerals do not move that easily. In this firm’s practice, roughly nine out of ten trusts we review left the minerals stranded outside. Most owners never find out until the worst possible moment. By then, the fix is harder, slower, and far more expensive. That gap between what people believe and what is actually true is where the damage lives. This is exactly the kind of problem this firm was built to catch. Before founding it, Attorney Daughtrey spent nearly a decade inside major oil companies. His job was deciding which ownership transfers a company would honor
