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Desk Focus 02 · Curative & Heirship

Title Curative & Heirship Mentorship.

When a Drilling or Division Order Title Opinion lands on your desk with thirty requirements, knowing what cures each requirement (and in what order to work them) saves weeks. Bring a sanitized requirement list or a draft Affidavit of Heirship and work through it with a mentor.

Apply for curative mentorship

An application is a request, not a seat. Format, schedule, and any fee are agreed in writing only after a match.

Sample curative log excerpt. Three requirements from a sample drilling opinion. Generic names, not a real file.

White chalk: the mentee's curative draft. Yellow chalk: a mentor's notes.

Req. Defect Record party Proposed cure Target / Status Ref. Draft notes Mentor's notes
4 AOH Reed, Clara (Est.) AOH by Mark Reed Dated 02/10/2026Filed Draft Bk/Pg 88/19 1/8 MI, Tract 2. No probate on file.

One family member alone leaves the AOH weak. Get two disinterested witnesses who knew her marital and child history.
9 OGL Delta Prod. Corp. Rel. + Non-Prod. Dated 05/14/1987Filed 06/02/1987 Bk/Pg 312/44 3-yr term expired 1990; plug report 1989.

Good. Pair the Affidavit of Non-Production with the state plugging record and production ledger.
14 NPRI Garza, L. M. Ratification Dated 11/03/2004Filed 11/18/2004 Bk/Pg 510/102 1/16 NPRI; pooled unit needs ratification.

The executive can lease, not pool an NPRI without authority. Explain how ratifying puts the NPRI on the unit deck.

What we go through on curative work

  1. Triaging the requirement list.

    Separating pre-spud drilling blockers (unleased mineral shares, missing pooling authority, active prior leases) from division-order pay holds and informational comments.

  2. Intestate vs. testate estate chains.

    Tracing every marriage, divorce, predeceased child, and per-stirpes branch before drafting an Affidavit of Heirship, and checking when a foreign will needs ancillary probate or exemplified filing.

  3. Prior unreleased leases and liens.

    Combining courthouse release searches (including bank mergers and FDIC receiverships) with state commission production and plugging records to support Affidavits of Non-Production.

  4. Correction deeds, ratifications, and stipulations.

    Understanding when a unilateral affidavit is not enough and why an ambiguous fraction requires a bilateral Stipulation of Interest with cross-conveyancing words of grant.

Apply to be matched with a mentor

Curative is pre-selected below. Add any other areas you want to work on.

Applying doesn't reserve a place, set a start date or commit you to a fee. Those come after a match, and only if you agree.

Prefer the phone? (307) 263-8515.

Everything is required except the fields marked optional.

Your role and the kind of work. For example: curative landman, title examiner, division order analyst.

However you’d put it: “2,” “about 5,” “3 in title, starting curative.”

What you want to get better at

Pick one or more.

One-on-one or one-on-few

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