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When it comes to mineral rights, the standard admonition has long been consistent and emphatic: Avoid selling them. After all, simply owning mineral rights costs you nothing. There are no liability risks, and in most cases, taxes are assessed only on properties that are actively producing oil or gas.

When you set up a living trust as the grantor, you designate both trustees and beneficiaries. You can designate the same person as both a beneficiary and a trustee, and you can even name yourself as a trustee and beneficiary.

In Texas, a deed of trust, also known as a trust deed, is the commonly used instrument for the purpose of creating mortgage liens on real estate. A mortgage is an executed contract in which the legal or equitable owner of the real property pledges the title thereto as security for performance of an obligation.

As a general rule of thumb, the value for non-producing mineral rights will nearly always be less than $1,000/acre. In most cases, the mineral rights value in Texas for non-producing minerals will be $0 to $250, but producing minerals – $25,000+ per acre is not unusual.

Since the mineral estate includes any minerals within the land, under the surface, the mineral estate owner is the only one with rights to any and all minerals there. When not specifically retained, mineral estates normally pass to the owner of the surface estate in a sale.

One quick and dirty approach is the “rule of thumb.” Those following the rule of thumb say that mineral rights are worth a multiple of three to five times the yearly income produced. For example, a mineral right that produces $1,000 a year in royalties would be worth between $3,000 and $5,000 under the rule of thumb.

The trustee named in a Texas deed of trust can be any individual person who has the legal capacity to hold and transfer property. Under Texas law, if the named trustee is a corporation, the corporation must be authorized to act as a trustee in Texas.

In simple terms, anyone who has the capacity to hold property can be a trustee. It is possible to be both a beneficiary and a trustee, although this may not always be appropriate. A trust may have just professional trustees, just lay trustees or a combination of the two.

But, if after 10 years the mineral rights are not being exploited (there is no oil and gas exploration or production), then the mineral rights revert to the new surface owner.