Celia Flowers Provides Continuing Legal Education to Colleagues
TYLER, TX (June 30, 2022) — Celia Flowers is one of 21 attorneys who will be lecturing at the Oil, Gas and Mineral Title Examination Course in Houston, Texas on June 30-July 1, 2022. Flowers will be presenting a paper she authored entitled “Examining the ‘Life’ of a Correction Instrument after Broadway Bank and Concho”.…
Read MoreFlowers Davis Teams with East Texas Title Companies in Community Service
TYLER, TX (August 1, 2022) — On Saturday morning, Flowers Davis Attorney Corey Kellam joined other area experts in community service at a panel discussion in Longview. The free panel discussion was tailored for the residents of South Longview, and covered topics such as property title, wills and trusts, life insurance, real estate acquisition and…
Read MoreCost-Free Royalties – Where Valuation Begins and Post-Production Cost Deductions End
Authors: Celia Flowers & Melanie Reyes Texas jurisprudence has long held that the royalty “stick” of the mineral estate is free of production costs. Although the royalty interest is not subject to production costs, royalty is usually subject to post-production costs. Heritage Resources, Inc. v. NationsBank, 939 S.W.2d 118, 122 (Tex. 1996). Nevertheless, parties are…
Read MoreElectronic Signatures, Remote Online Notaries & e-Recording
Author: Celia Flowers TABLE OF CONTENTS I. PAPER DOCUMENTS ARE GRADUALLY BEING REPLACED BY ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS. 4 II. ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES IN GLOBAL AND NATIONAL COMMERCE ACT (E-SIGN)-, UNIFORM ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS ACT (UETA), AND UNIFORM REAL PROPERTY ELECTRONIC RECORDING ACT (URPERA). 4 A. The E-SIGN Authorized Electronic Contracts Almost Twenty Years Ago. 4 1. Parties to…
Read MoreExamining the “Life” of a Correction Instrument After Broadway and Concho
EXAMINING THE “LIFE” OF A CORRECTION INSTRUMENT AFTER BROADWAY BANK AND CONCHO CELIA C. FLOWERS, Tyler Flowers Davis, P.L.L.C. State Bar of Texas OIL, GAS & MINERAL TITLE EXAMINATION June 30–July 1, 2022 Houston TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION 1 II. LIFE BEFORE BROADWAY AND CONCHO 1 A. Myrad Case 1 B. Legislative Response to…
Read MoreMediation vs Litigation
2019 TEXAS REALTOR MCE, December 2019, Tyler, TX, “Mediation vs Litigation”, presented by Corey Kellam, based on a paper written by Celia Flowers. Participants learned how each can impact a real estate transaction.
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