Wyoming - Oil & Gas

摘要

Wyoming Supreme Court Upholds Adoption of a Foreign Probate Decree Distributing Estate Assets Contrary to Will Provisions In 1983 Lon V. Smith died domiciled in California owning many oil and gas interests including an overriding royalty interest (ORRI) in Carbon County, Wyoming. His will, probated in California, clearly left the mineral interests and the ORRI to his wife, Marguerite B. Smith, for her life and then to the Lon V. Smith Foundation (Foundation).