Oil and Gas Leases – What’s the Going Rate?

Oil and Gas Leases – What’s the Going Rate?

That’s the $64,000 question! The landman has just left your house after making an offer to lease your oil and gas minerals.  You know you can negotiate with the oil and gas company.  You know you can obtain a better…

 Dear Mom & Dad…A Universal Letter to Parents

Dear Mom & Dad…A Universal Letter to Parents

What started as days turned into weeks, and will shortly turn into months. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread here in the Ohio Valley and with it comes more and more recommendations to further promote “social distancing,” among other things.…

 Quarantine Heroes, Thank You!

Quarantine Heroes, Thank You!

Long days…longer nights. I guess that’s what stay at home orders do to you. In one of the most surreal periods of time in the history of my life, we are under a period of extreme isolation. We are all…

 Finding Joy in the Time of Quarantine

Finding Joy in the Time of Quarantine

If you had asked me a week ago if there was any silver lining to my time in quarantine, I would have told you that at least I didn’t have to put a suit and tie on every day to…

 Social Distancing is Necessary but Challenging

Social Distancing is Necessary but Challenging

The COVID-19 crisis is unlike anything we have experienced or dealt with in our lifetimes. In addition to all the challenges we now face on a daily basis, the crisis will continue to create problems for the foreseeable future. Over…

 Out of the Darkness of COVID

Out of the Darkness of COVID

I’ll admit it, I had an anxiety attack or two or maybe even three in the last week or two as the inevitable spread of the COVID virus came closer and closer to becoming a reality in West Virginia. The…

 In Loving Memory – Ruth Ann Byers

In Loving Memory – Ruth Ann Byers

In Loving Memory Ruth Ann Byers 1961 – 2020 On March 4 the Gold, Khourey & Turak family lost one of its valued members. Ruth Ann Byers, who began work with the firm as a secretary in 1988 and who…

 Murray Mine Subsidence Claim

Murray Mine Subsidence Claim

If you have received a Murray bankruptcy proof of claim notice, you’re not alone. Many, many people throughout the community have called my office after receiving these notices to ask what they need to do. Your deadline to take action…

 VA Disability Benefits “Out of the Blue”

VA Disability Benefits “Out of the Blue”

Did you know? Beginning January 1 of this year, an estimated 500,000 additional Veterans qualified for VA Disability Benefits and medical coverage. You could be one of them. On June 25, 2019, Congress passed the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans…

 Oil and Gas and the Purgatory Court

Oil and Gas and the Purgatory Court

“Purgatory” is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “a place or state of temporary suffering or misery.” I can think of no better word to describe the proposed West Virginia intermediate appellate court (what I call the Purgatory Court) that…