the lady me and friends are buying a claim from lost her husband last year
he filed out all the filings on 6 lode claims, after his passing She receives a notice of forfeit because of no
payment or small miners waver, she calls BLM they tell her they are lost, so she refiles on each in Oct.
one of the claims was filed on by others in Sept. it was the one with the main adit with 270' of tunnel.
My question, I think She should have been able to recover these claims, she has been through a lot dealing with
her husband passing and clearing up his estate, the only thing I've found is "Upon the death and settlement of the estate"
the heirs shall notify BLM of new ownership of the mining claims, and
If it's in probate once its settled the heirs will start making the filings,
so wouldn't it make sense she could just say she was overwhelmed taking care of his estate
and be able to apply a retroactive deferral.
I've seen claims closed due to death of the claimant and reinstated 6 months later just this year, glad i didn't file on them. Should be a law to protect widows...
he filed out all the filings on 6 lode claims, after his passing She receives a notice of forfeit because of no
payment or small miners waver, she calls BLM they tell her they are lost, so she refiles on each in Oct.
one of the claims was filed on by others in Sept. it was the one with the main adit with 270' of tunnel.
My question, I think She should have been able to recover these claims, she has been through a lot dealing with
her husband passing and clearing up his estate, the only thing I've found is "Upon the death and settlement of the estate"
the heirs shall notify BLM of new ownership of the mining claims, and
If it's in probate once its settled the heirs will start making the filings,
so wouldn't it make sense she could just say she was overwhelmed taking care of his estate
and be able to apply a retroactive deferral.
I've seen claims closed due to death of the claimant and reinstated 6 months later just this year, glad i didn't file on them. Should be a law to protect widows...
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