Mineral Rights and Eminent Domain: What you Need to Know
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 08/30/2013
- Oil and Gas
Most property owners are aware of the basic concept of eminent domain. As a well-known legal framework with deep historical roots, eminent domain has provided governments with adequate grounds to appropriate and improve specific parcels of ...
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How are Pipeline Right of Way Agreements Structured?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 08/26/2013
- Oil and Gas
It used to be said the country ran on the railroads. These days a good portion of it runs on pipelines that carry gas, petroleum, and other products across the region. And like the railroads these pipeline operators need land to build, ...
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Oil & Gas Title Opinion FAQs
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 08/23/2013
- Real Estate
The real estate industry is built upon a strong legal foundation that relies heavily on a clear chain of ownership. While it's not difficult to establish the chain of ownership for a newly subdivided parcel, lands that have frequently ...
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Should You Lease or Purchase Mineral Rights?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 08/07/2013
- Oil and Gas
If you own land in a region that's known to contain significant oil and gas resources, your parcel's subsurface mineral rights could be quite valuable. Since recent advances in drilling and exploration technologies have increased the value ...
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Options for Creditors After a Declaration of Bankruptcy
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 08/05/2013
- Legal
You are a creditor. One of your customers or clients has declared bankruptcy. What will that mean for your bottom line and what do you do to minimize the impact to your business? How can you recoup your debt? Will it even be possible to do ...
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How to Prepare a Title Opinion
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 07/31/2013
- Real Estate
Title opinions are essential to the practice of residential and commercial real estate law. Among other things, they play a crucial role in the smooth transfer of property and the orderly assignation of mineral rights. Unfortunately, ...
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How Do Land Title Loans Work?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 07/24/2013
- Real Estate
Contrary to popular belief, title loans aren't restricted to the vehicle financing industry. Although the most commonly issued types of title loans are attached to passenger cars, motorcycles, RVs and other rolling stock, it's possible to ...
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How to Protect your Assets after a Divorce
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 07/12/2013
- Legal
It’s been said over and over again; nobody gets married expecting to divorce. And it’s been stated over and over again that 50% of all marriages will end in divorce. It is a classic "hope for the best and prepare for the worst" scenario. ...
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How Does the Probate Process Work?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 06/21/2013
- Real Estate
The word probate seems to send shivers down the spine of anyone dealing with an estate covered by a will. The horror stories have it that it prolongs the time it takes to carry out the will and that it will cost a lot of money to boot.
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