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12/06/2021

Farmers, have you ever given thought to the legal problems you could get into by saving the seeds from a previous harvest? A great article written by Tiffany Lashmet from Texas A & M. There is a pdf link to the fact sheet.

I recently published a fact sheet focused on what farmers need to know about seed saving laws. This is both important and complicated, so my hope is that this fact sheet will help farmers understand the different protections that may apply and help them know what questions to ask when purchasing or....

07/14/2020

Texas Landowner Wins!

Recently, the First District Court of Appeals in Houston sided with a landowner who challenged the eminent domain authority of a pipeline company seeking to condemn property. The case is important for landowners and helps to further flesh out the facts that a pipeline company must be able to show in...

03/16/2020

Eminent Domain in Texas: A Landowner’s Guide - by Attorney Tiffany Dowell.
Eminent domain is one of the most controversial issues facing Texas landowners. Get the FREE pdf book at the link below.

Eminent domain is one of the most controversial issues facing Texas landowners. The key to protecting one’s property is to understand a landowner’s rights, to be familiar with the condemnation process, and to know what steps to take when facing a taking of private property. In order to help educ...

06/03/2019

Texas Brokers and property owners:

There is a new data visualization tool for Appraisal Review Board (ARB) data.
This tool allows users to explore and compare ARB information collected through the Appraisal District Operations Survey and the ARB Survey. Users can compare information on the following:
• ARB members, budgets and per diems;
• protested properties and the values protested;
• ARB determinations issued; and
• ARB survey responses.

If interested in the link --please PM me for it

04/05/2019

Real Estate Brokers - be advised!

Two South Florida brokerages have been sued over their use of an automated texting service to market their properties, a practice that the lawsuits say violates federal antispam laws.

02/25/2019

Court Rules for Oil Operator in Accommodation Doctrine

Last summer, a case from the El Paso Court of Appeals, Harrison v. Rosetta Resources Operating, raised interesting arguments regarding water use and the accommodation doctrine. Background The Harrison Trust owns 320 acres in Reeves County. Mr. Harrison is the trustee of the Harrison Trust. The miner...

02/22/2019

Good Report!

A conservation easement is a voluntary agreement between a landowner and a qualified nonprofit land trust or government entity through which the landowner commits to minimize or avoid certain types of non-agricultural development on their property by selling or donating certain property rights

The Texas Land Trends project of Texas A&M’s Natural Resources Institute, or NRI, has published a special series report describing Texas landowner participation in land conservation easements and their value to agricultural production, water and wildlife.

02/20/2019

Never GIVE UP on your dreams!

02/20/2019

Test flying the Velocity before coming to my home!

01/28/2019

Great article-Eminent Domain and the Right to Survey

Question: If a company with eminent domain power has contacted me about obtaining an easement across my property and now wants access to survey, can I keep them off of my land? Answer: No. In Texas, courts have held that by granting condemning entities the right to condemn land, this includes the ri...

01/15/2019

Great article from Tiffany Dowell J.D. --AG Law.

One way that Texas landowners can protect themselves from liability is to ensure that guests sign liability waivers before engaging in certain activities. For example, oftentimes hunters that plan to hunt on the property of another are asked to sign a liability waiver (also called a release of liabi...

12/20/2018

Texas Landowners Sue....

HOUSTON, Dec. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Two Southeast Texas landowners have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit claiming that a division of Houston-based...