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Probate and Estate Settlement
Services
Identification and Location of Heirs,
Legatees, Witnesses
Asset Location and Liquidation
Services
Fiduciary Fraud
Investigations
Probate and Estate
Settlement Services
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Identify and
locate heirs, legatees and witnesses (see Skip tracing).
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File petitions at any
Surrogate or Probate Court.
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Examine and research
court records. Return copies of filed
documents.
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Conduct all due diligence
and investigations for family tree and unknown
heirs.
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Visit with distributees,
legatees and witnesses by Notaries Public to execute and
return waivers, witness affidavits, or other
documents.
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Locate assets belonging
to the decedent
Identification and
Location of Heirs, Legatees, Witnesses
With the rapid proliferation of online
databases, including Internet "people finders," many attorneys and
legal professionals have sought to do much of their own work in
identifying, locating and skip tracing witnesses, parties, heirs,
and others. If you have tried to do this, you may have
found that the costs of searching through commercial databases
escalates rapidly while the information you find is either stale or
just plain wrong. You may also have found that identifying the
exact subject of your search amongst all the same named individuals
can be confusing, and costly. As information gatherers and online
data aggregators continue to use cross-referencing software, much of
the information available online has become intermingled and
confused, further complicating your search, both in time and
money.
Do you Google? The Google search
engine continues to grow in popularity, and much of the information
obtained is useful, valuable, accurate, and free! However,
search results, here, as well as with Yahoo! and other Internet
search engines, are not exhaustive, nor complete. And you may
still have the continuing problem of assuring that the results you
find pertain to the actual person you are concerned with.
We have been using public and
proprietary online databases since their inception. Sorting
through the huge amount of information now available requires a
thorough understanding of the methods by which information providers
gather and sort their information. We maintain online accounts
with hundreds of available databases, public and proprietary, and we
access these sources at costs generally less than you must
pay. For many of these sources, access is strictly limited and
monitored, so you may not even be able to use these on your
own.. In addition, we maintain relationships with a nationwide
and international network of document retrievers, abstractors and
investigators to do the follow-up and confirmation work necessary
which just cannot be done online.
In addition to helping you identify
and locate your subjects, we can help identify and locate relatives,
friends and business associates of those
subjects.
And when we're out in the field,
we only allow experienced investigators to conduct witness
interviews. This includes our own staff as well as our direct
affiliates, in the United States and around the world.
Asset Location and
Liquidation Services
We look for hard assets such as real
property and chattel, including motor vehicles. We look for
business interests as well as assets that are sometimes overlooked,
such as patents and trademarks. In keeping with restrictions
which may exist due to federal or local laws and rules, it may also
be possible for us to examine and confirm liquid assets such as bank
accounts and brokerage accounts. We can also assist in
identifying and acquiring such proofs of ownership and other
documents or forms as may be necessary to transfer or liquidate any
asset.
Fidiciary Fraud
Investigations
In
addition to standard investigative services that we provide, we can
help in this specialized area:
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Complete background investigation of named
fiduciary
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Identify and locate payees and other recipients of
estate or trust assets
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Identify and examine business interests and properties
of the estate or trust
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Locate, retain and direct the services of specialists
such as document and handwriting experts,
electronic
detection and surveillance experts, ink, paper, fingerprint
and all other forensic
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